Man jailed after raping woman and sending explicit videos to girl
Dylan Jepson's offending started in 2022
A man, from Stoke-on-Trent, has been jailed for more than a decade, for a string of sexual offences, including raping a woman and sending explicit videos to a girl in Staffordshire.
Dylan Jepson, 22, has been sentenced to ten years and 11 months in prison, with a three-year extended licence period, after he was found guilty of the rape of a woman.
He also admitted a number of offences at three earlier hearings, including nine counts of sexual communication with a child and various other offences.
In February 2022, Jepson approached a woman in Tunstall and raped her.
When the incident was reported to police, they went looking for Jepson and arrested him. They examined his phone, which contained a number of indecent images of children and extreme pornographic images.
In October 2024, officers recieved a report, by a parent, to advise she had found messages of a sexual nature on her daughter's mobile phone from a man. Jepson was arrested and interviewed, before being released on bail.
Then, in August last year, Jepson added a girl on Snapchat and repeatedly asked her to send explicit photos of herself. He also sent her videos of him masturbating. At this point, he was arrested and remanded into custody, whilst enquiries continued. Further victims were then identified from downloads of his devices.
He did this all, knowing the victim’s ages.
Jepson was brought in for questioning and charged with the offences, which he later admitted in court. He was sentenced at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday (Thursday 17 September).
He was also put on the Sex Offenders Register for life and served with an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Detective Constable Angela Maxfield, from the child protection team and Sergeant Emily Raybould, from the police online investigations team (POLIT), worked on the cases.
Sgt Raybould said: “Jepson was prolific in his offending and has rightfully been brought to justice, for his catalogue of heinous crimes.
“I hope this sentence provides some form of comfort to the victims in these cases and I hope it demonstrates that we are working tirelessly, to act against sex offenders robustly in Staffordshire.”