Robin Holmes

A previously convicted sex offender has been jailed for eight years after sending sexual messages to someone he believed was a 12-year-old boy — just months after leaving prison.

Robin Holmes, 70, from Grimsby, targeted a decoy account on Snapchat, sending an indecent image and requesting images in return.

Holmes pleaded guilty to sexual communication with a child, causing a child to watch a sexual act, possessing indecent images of children and three breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

The investigation began in April 2026, when Humberside Police’s Online Investigation Team received information from the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit about his contact with the decoy.

Detectives established that Holmes had been sending sexual messages to the account while believing he was communicating with a child.

He had been released from prison in December 2025, following a recall for breaching an SHPO imposed in connection with previous sexual offences.

Within months, he was offending again.

Officers arrested Holmes at his home and seized several mobile phones for forensic examination, including the device used to contact the decoy.

He has now been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Source: UK Database on Facebook