'Yes, I've done it again': Shameless criminals caught out by their sick boasts
09.04.2022 - 22:45
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The courts see a whole host of criminals, accused and convicted of all kinds of offences. Some are remorseful, accept their guilt and wish to make amends.
Others deny they were involved, and claim either duress, blame vices such as drugs and alcohol, or refuse to speak at all. But there are a select few who brazenly confess, making clear their feelings about what they have done.
Here the Manchester Evening News looks back on offenders who made confessions and outbursts after their crimes - from matter-of-fact to downright disturbing.
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Benjamin Behan admitted to his family that he had ‘done it again’ after being caught out by paedophile hunters. The 25-year-old had been ordered to undergo the Horizon scheme, which aims to rehabilitate sex offenders and change their warped outlook, after being found with vile images of children.
But Behan, from Wythenshawe said it was a 'load of cr**'. He claimed that sessions being moved online during the pandemic made them more difficult for him to follow.
"He didn't engage with it as best he could have done," Behan's barrister Mark Shanks told Manchester Crown Court. Despite attempts to help him reform, Behan has now been locked up after he once again displayed a sexual interest in children. He was exposed by paedophile hunters, with a decoy account being set up in the name of a 14-year-old girl.
Behan told her he was a head chef at a pub, and the pair had some 'innocuous' chat about coronavirus before he turned the conversation sexual. He suggested that they could go to a hotel room, and asked whether she wanted to be naked in bed with him, prosecutor Amanda Johnson said.
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