March 2021

Lincoln paedophile with “appalling” record jailed again

A paedophile with an “appalling” record of sex offences involving children tried to destroy evidence when police turned up at his home, Lincoln Crown Court was told on Thursday.

Ian Picksley, who at the time was on prison licence after being released from an indeterminate sentence, was visited by officers in December 2019 at his flat in Hawthorn Chase, Lincoln, but initially refused to answer the door.




The court heard that Picksley had convictions for 27 previous sexual offences starting back in 1992.

His most recent offending led him to receive an indeterminate sentence at Sheffield Crown Court in 2007 for offences against a girl under the age of 13. He served nine years before being released in 2016.

Mr Stanford said: “This is someone who clearly has a sexual interest in children. He has an appalling criminal record for sexual offences.”



His computer devices were ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.

Recorder Charles Falk, passing sentence, told him: “You have a horrific record of sexual offending.”