A man who arranged to meet what he believed was a teenage boy in breach of an order has appeared in court. Michael Dyos, 58, was given a ten-year sexual harm prevention order in 2021 due to making indecent images of children, forbidding him from owning a communications device or communicating with a person under the age of 16 without consent from parents. Judge Gold KC told the court at Hove Trial Centre that in 2019, police received a report of the alleged grooming of a 14-year-old boy by Dyos, although the accusations were dropped as the boy became unwilling to cooperate.
Dyos’s devices were seized and over 1,000 indecent images of children were found as part of the investigation, landing him with the prevention order and an eight-month suspended sentence. However, in July of this year, Dyos, of College Road in Horsham, communicated with an undercover police officer acting as a 13-year-old boy on a gay adult dating website, before continuing conversations on Kik, an instant messaging platform. Dyos spoke with the officer, believing him to be a teenager called Rory, about meeting up and engaging in sexual activity.
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