Overview

• Raymond Beckett, 65, admitted two breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to 10 months in custody.
• The court heard he approached a grandmother’s three grandchildren in Southport on June 20–21 while shirtless and intoxicated, asking an eight-year-old girl to come to him and telling a boy he had been attacked with a bat.
• Judge Neil Flewitt KC ruled the breaches deliberate, noted distress to the children, and said only immediate custody was appropriate, warning of a significantly longer term for any future breach.
• The five-year order was imposed last year after sexual assault convictions and prohibits any contact with children unless a parent or guardian is aware of his convictions.
• Sentencing remarks cited failed engagement with support, unstable accommodation concerns for community management, and defense claims that alcohol-driven disinhibition contributed to his behavior, as the grandmother later learned of his record through news reports.