Ryan Lee Howley sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment after breaching a sexual harm prevention order for attempting to sexually exploit children

Ryan Lee Howley

Ryan Lee Howley (14/02/1994) has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment after breaching a sexual harm prevention order, Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard on Tuesday 31 October.

Howley, of HMP Manchester, breached the order earlier this year in Littleborough on 22 March after messaging an underage teenage girl and attempting to ‘bribe her’ out of her bedroom window during the early hours of the morning. He is also understood to have told the girl he was 17 and used a friend’s social media account to message her.

The sexual offences prevention order was received in February 2016, when Howley was sentenced to three years in prison and indefinite sex offenders’ registration for inciting a child to commit sexual activity and attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.

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Between November 2014 and April 2015, Howley separately contacted children who were aged between twelve and thirteen in the Rochdale and Todmorden areas using messaging on social media He was aware of the children’s age and sent them numerous sexual messages He asked them to go shopping with him, or for a drive. In one message he asked a twelve year-old girl to send an indecent image of herself to him but the girl refused. He continued to contact the children even when they asked him to stop.

Howley also followed children down the street in his car and approached a twelve year old girl asking her to have sex with him. The children told their parents and police were alerted.