A HEREFORDSHIRE man has been jailed after sexually communicating with children.

Martin Mossey appeared before magistrates in Worcester for trial in February after entering not guilty pleas to two counts of engaging in sexual communication with a child and one count of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, or distress at an earlier hearing.

The court heard from prosecutor Daniella Davidson-James that the 67-year-old was accused of intentionally communicating with two girls aged under 16 for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification in Hereford on December 19.

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The communications had been sexual, with Mossey making inappropriate sexual references, the prosecutor told the court.

He was also accused of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour, thereby causing a woman harassment, alarm, or distress in Hereford on December 8.

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Mossey, who was represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Edmund Middleton, was found guilty of both charges of engaging in sexual communication with a child.

He was found not guilty of the third offence, of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour.

Magistrates said that only a custodial sentence could be justified as the offences were serious and as Mossey has previous convictions of a similar nature.

Herefordshire man Mossey, who is of no fixed address, was jailed for a total of eight months and ordered to pay compensation of £50 to each of the victims.

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