The court heard Cotterill, from Hathershaw, Oldham had been jailed for 20 months in February last year after he was found guilty of engaging in sexual communication with a child, causing a child to watch a sexual act and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. Police are still analysing his phone to establish whether there were any other possible illicit communications. He admitted breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which banned him from communicating with children but he denied making any indecent overtures towards the unnamed boy.Īt Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Cotterill faced a further period behind bars for breaching the SHPO but was given nine months jail suspended for two years and was sent on the Government's Horizon programme for convicted sex offenders. Teaching assistant Kieran Cotterill, 29, used the Snapchat quick add app to contact a 14-year old boy who went to a school he was sacked from and sent him messages asking for photos, a court heardĬotterill was then taken back to jail and ordered to serve the remainder of his sentence after the boy told his teachers and showed them the messages.
