A CONVICTED sex offender has been jailed after he admitted breaching a court order.

After his release from prison Jay Bolton, formerly of Rhyl, was staying at the Plas y Wern Bail Hostel at Acrefair near Wrexham.

But within days he bought a SIM card for his mobile phone which was not registered with the police, said barrister Oliver King, prosecuting.

Then on a later occasion when he was being arrested he reverted his mobile phone back to factory settings, which meant the history of his internet use was not retained for police examination.

Appearing at Mold Crown Court he pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order when he had previous convictions for doing the same thing.

Bolton, 32, received a 28 month prison sentence.

Judge Rhys Rowlands said the order was in place to address the risk that he posed by his "continuing deviant behaviour".

The order had been imposed in June 2017 when he was jailed for failing to comply with the sex register requirements imposed for possessing prohibited images of children.

A new order was made but he breached that order in November 2017.

In May of last year he was sent to prison for a further breach.

He was back in court again for two more breaches – he had failed to provide police with details of a new SIM card he had obtained.

That occurred while he was on licence and while living at a probation hostel.

The second breach in January when on arrested he reverted his phone to factory settings.

That posed the question why he would have done so unless it was to hide further illicit activity on the internet.

He routinely failed to provide police with the necessary details which made the task of managing him in the community more difficult.

Judge Rowlands said he needed to spend more time in custody so hopefully he would change his attitude.

"If you don't, you will find yourself further incarcerated in the future," the judge told him.

Defence barrister Matthew Dunford said Bolton's life had fallen apart.

It may be said that was his own fault but it was clear that he had lost everything because of the offences.

His best mitigation was that he had admitted what he had done.

He had indicated that on his release he intended to comply with the order.

Mr Dunford urged the court to keep the sentence to a minimum.