A high-risk sex offender has been jailed after he asked a sheriff to lock him up because he couldn’t control his urges.
Lee Chapman was placed on probation at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2009 after he admitted pinning down a young boy before performing a sex act on him. At the time the court heard that Chapman told police he was scared of being alone with children as “he did not know what he may do”.
And yesterday he was handed a two year sentence at Aberdeen Sheriff Court after he admitted two charges of making and being in possession of indecent images of children.
Defence agent Stewart Murray told the court Chapman still struggled to control his urges and that he did not want anything other than a custodial sentence.
The court heard Chapman was subject to a risk of sexual harm order at the time of his most recent offences in November and December last year.
Yesterday, Sheriff Graeme Napier told Chapman he would be on licence when he was released from jail. He also imposed a five-year sexual offences prevention order, and placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.
In 2009, the High Court in Edinburgh heard Chapman, of North Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, pinned down a youngster and performed a sex act on him – before warning him he would get a “hiding” if he told anyone.
He was sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to take part in the sex offenders programme after admitted the assault on the primary-aged boy.