A PERVERT has been jailed for four years and ten months after breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order twice.

Leslie Weeding was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court after admitting communicating with a child for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification.

Weeding, formerly of Finchingfield Way, Colchester, also admitted two counts of breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which had been in place since 2016.

The 39-year-old was jailed for four years and ten months at the sentencing hearing.

The Sexual Harm Prevention Order will remain in place.