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Bail granted on grooming-for-sex charges
Electronically monitored bail has been granted to a man facing a long list of under-age sex charges, after a month in custody on remand.
But Judge Noel Walsh has told 34-year-old Clement Wilkinson he must not have any contact with girls who are prosecution witnesses, or any other girls aged under 16.
He is charged with meeting girls after grooming them for sex, apparently on social networking sites, and Judge Walsh told him: “You would be an absolute fool to go anywhere near a computer.”
More charges have also been laid against the Hillsborough man. He now faces a total of 10 charges of having sexual connection with a young person aged between 12 and 16 years, eight charges of possessing objectionable publications, three of receiving stolen property, and four of meeting a young person after sexual grooming.
He was remanded to October 8, on conditions that he stay at a Hillsborough address under a 24-hour-a-day curfew with electronically monitored bail, and not consume alcohol or non-prescription drugs.
The offending is said to involve three girls aged 13, 14, and 15 years. Bail was refused when the first application by defence counsel Lee-Lee Heah was heard on June 30, with the police saying that inquiries were continuing.
