The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A Holbeach teenager pretended to be offering a 15-year-old girl a job and asked her to send a photograph of her stripped to her bra.
Luke Henderson, 19, of St Matthews Close, who admitted inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, as well as two separate offences of assault by beating, was said to have engaged in conversation on Snapchat with the girl and they told each other their ages.
Henderson, who was 17 at the time in August last year, pretended that there was a part time job available for her and he masqueraded as a potential employer and asked her to strip to her bra if she wanted the job.
Prosecuting, Paul Wood said the girl refused and Henderson was arrested but denied any involvement and said his Snapchat account had been hacked but several months later he admitted the offence.
Mr Wood said that on October 10 this year, he assaulted two males on a Spalding car park after a girl with them alleged he had ‘kissed her inappropriately’ at school and they called him a ‘nonce’.
He said Henderson punched one of them several times to the head and the other one once.
Helen Coney, mitigating for Henderson, said Henderson was ‘not particularly mature’ and was suspected of being autistic, and reminded the court he had only been 17 at the time of the sexual incitement offence.
The court also heard that Henderson was subject to an existing community order until April next year.
The magistrates imposed a new community order and ordered Henderson to undertake 120 hours of unpaid work for the community.
He was also ordered to pay a total of £150 in compensation to the men assaulted but no order for court costs and charges.
They also issued a restraining order to prevent him contacting the girl involved.
