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Burnley sex offender sentenced for breaching prevention order

|News, Sexual offences

A 41 year old man was sentenced today at Burnley crown court for breaching sex offender notification requirements and a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO).

Glyn Harrison, previously known as Glyn Thompson, had been a school sports coach in a primary school in Burnley when the original offences took place back in 2011-2013.

On the 5th September 2013 Harrison was sentenced to eight years in prison for child sex offences. He was also given a SOPO and sex offender notification requirements.

At the sentence hearing, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told the court that Harrison had breached the SOPO by having unsupervised contact with a female child under 16 years of age, without the approval of social services and the child’s parent was unaware of his convictions.

He had also breached his sex offender notification requirements by not informing the relevant authorities where he was residing and staying for a period of 7 days or more where a child under 18 resides.

He pleaded guilty to the charges at Burnley Magistrates Court at an earlier hearing and was sentenced on the 9th May 2022 at Burnley Crown Court to 24 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months with a 7 month curfew and 20 Rehabilitation Action Requirement Days.

Katie Lord, Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West said: “Thompson changed his name to Harrison in an attempt to leave his past behind him. He didn’t disclose his past offending to the women he dated so they could make informed decisions and he failed to adhere to the SOPO and notification requirements put in place to protect children from him reoffending.

I hope this conviction and sentence will remind him and others of the consequences of breaching sexual offences prevention orders and notification requirements.”

Notes to editors

Glyn Harrison, formerly Glyn Thompson DoB 08.10.1981.

Charged with:

  • Between 04/02/2022 and 04/02/2022 breached a sexual offences prevention order. 
  • Between 01/08/2020 and 28/02/2021 failed without reasonable excuse to comply with the notification requirements.
  • Between 01/08/2020 and 28/02/2021 failed without reasonable excuse to comply with the notification requirements.

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