Liskeard sex offender jailed after being arrested in his home
A child sex offender has been jailed after being involved in a specialist police operation.
Jason Taylor shared his intentions to drive to Kent in order to meet and abuse a child.
Taylor, 38, of Pengover Road in Liskeard, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence on Tuesday 30 June having pleaded guilty to multiple offences of possession of indecent images of children, distributing indecent images of children, arranging and facilitation the commission of a child sex offence and causing and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
He was jailed for five years and made subject of a ten year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
The court heard how on 20 April 2026 Devon & Cornwall Police received intelligence stating that Taylor had been actively engaging and discussing child sexual abuse online.
Taylor shared his sexual attraction to children and his intentions to abuse ‘a child’.
Taylor shared that he was willing to drive to Kent during the school holidays to carry out the abuse himself.
The defendant shared child abuse images during the specialist operation.
Taylor was arrested by Devon & Cornwall Police Paedophile Online Investigation Team officers in his home.
Police Constable Dean Martin of the Paedophile Online Investigation Team said: “We welcome the sentence given to Jason Taylor today.
“Bringing offenders of child sexual abuse to justice remains our utmost priority. Whilst on this occasion, Taylor was speaking to a specialist police officer should it have been a person with a real sexual interest in children, somewhere in the world a child would have been sexually abused for his own sick gratification.
“For those engaging or attempting to engage in this type of behaviour or possess child sexual abuse material – the warning is simple.
“You will be caught. You will be brought to justice. We will do everything we can to protect the public and the most vulnerable in our society from harm.”
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