A Brighton man who groomed two girls has been jailed for child sex abuse and making indecent pictures of children.
Lloyd Anthony Collins, 30, of Montpelier Road, Brighton, was given a 15-year sentence – nine years in prison and six years on extended licence in the community under supervision.
Judge Jeremy Donne told Lloyd Collins that he would be a registered sex offender for life after jailing him Chichester Crown Court this morning (Monday 18 July).
He groomed a girl of 14 and another of 15 – and had sex with them when they were 15, making an indecent film of one of them, the court was told.
At an earlier hearing, Collins, who is unemployed, admitted several counts of having sex with an underage girl in addition to the indecent filming.
He also pleaded guilty to three other counts of making dozens of indecent images of children as well as a charge of physically assaulting one of the 15-year-old girls.
Jennifer Gray, prosecuting, said that he threw her across his bedroom, sending her crashing into a wardrobe.
Collins also admitted having cannabis with intent to supply in June 2019 at his Montpelier Road flat. He said that he sold cannabis to friends to fund his own drug use.
And he admitted assaulting PC Raffaele Cioffi in September 2020 while a charge of racially abusing PC Tatenda Ngundu in June 2019 was ordered to lie on the file.
Miss Gray said that Collins displayed controlling and coercive behaviour, having plied both girls with drink and drugs as he groomed them.
As the judge and the barristers tried to establish how old Collins was when he targeted the girls, the judge complained that Sussex Police had redacted the defendant’s date of birth.
Miss Gray said: “I’ve complained about it a number of times. It’s not helpful to anyone.”
She added that Collins had even bombarded one of his victims with calls from prison – trying to persuade her to stop co-operating with the police – despite her request for his calls to be blocked.
She said that the request had been “lost” by the prison. And when the block was eventually put in place, he got round it by using another inmate’s details to keep calling her.
The girl ended up changing her phone number and, in a victim statement read by Miss Gray, she told the court: “I met him at 14. I looked up to him and he would call himself God.
“I feel that he took everything positive from me … He smashed three phones and an iPad. He often told me that I wasn’t clean or a good person.
