Thomas Beswick, a 25-year-old from Crewe, has been jailed for 12 months at Chester Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).
The court heard that in 2022, Beswick was handed a 10-year SHPO as part of sentencing for a previous offence, including the possession of indecent images. Under the terms of the order, he was prohibited from remaining in any address where a child under 16 was present without the expressed approval of Social Services.
Befriended mum-to-be and attended baby shower
On October 4, officers received a call from a woman reporting Beswick for breaching the order. She told officers she had befriended him in 2025, prior to the birth of her baby. The pair became friends, and Beswick attended her baby shower, other family events, and had even helped with childcare.
The woman disclosed that Beswick had not informed her of his SHPO restrictions; she found out second-hand and immediately called police. He was arrested shortly after and taken into custody, where he answered no comment to all questions put to him.
Police response and sentencing
PC Clark, of Crewe's Sex Offender Management Unit, said: “Sexual Harm Prevention Orders are put in place to protect the public from dangerous offenders.
“Beswick’s lack of honesty to inform the woman he had befriended of his order, and his decision to visit her at her home whilst knowing her young child would also be present, put both the mother and child at risk.
“Officers from the Crewe Sex Offender Management Unit took swift action in locating and arresting Beswick before remanding him in custody and putting him before the courts where he received an immediate custodial sentence.”
