Overview

• Leah is charged under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 with inciting a child to engage in sexual activity after serving as deputy manager and key worker at a St Helens care home.
• Prosecutor Graham Pickavance told the jury Leah admitted she had fallen in love with the teenage resident she was responsible for.
• Jurors heard intimate WhatsApp exchanges in which Leah invited the boy on a private “night away” featuring balloons and nitrous oxide.
• Merseyside Police recovered video showing the teenager asleep in Leah’s bed and colleagues testified she wore revealing clothing around him.
• Despite bail conditions barring contact, Leah and the teenager were spotted together at Walton Hall and Gardens weeks after her release.