A NORTH Cumbrian sex offender whose past offences include a rape secretly downloaded dating apps on his phone – and then deleted them.

The actions of 27-year-old Carlisle man Glen Adrian, which came to light shortly after he was released from a jail term for stalking, put him in breach of a strict sexual harm prevention order, Carlisle Crown Court heard.

Kim Whittlestone, prosecuting, outlined how the defendant was first made subject to the sexual harm prevention order in 2014.

Indefinite in its duration, and intended to protect children, the order was imposed after Adrian was convicted of raping a female and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The barrister went on to describe the latest offence, the second time that Adrian, formerly of Lowther Street, Carlisle, had flouted the order.

Part of the order included a condition that monitoring software had to be installed on any internet-enabled device owned or used by Adrian. He is also barred from ever deleting his internet history.

When police inspected a new mobile phone that Adrian had acquired, they discovered that the day before, on January 18 this year, he had downloaded and then deleted the Tinder dating app.

Though initially that offence seemed not the most serious breach of such an order, said Miss Whittlestone, it had to be seen against the background of Adrian’s most recent offence, for which he was jailed.

“It involved stalking within a relationship,” said the barrister.

“The defendant displayed coercive and controlling behaviour towards the female concerned and once she had ended that relationship he attended at her home address and place of work; he also threatened to kill himself unless she failed to attend at the bridge [where he was].”

Jeff Smith, defending, said the victim of the previous offence had been an escort whom Adrian had met via a website. She had not wanted a monogamous relationship with Adrian, said the lawyer.

Judge Nicholas Barker told Adrian his original 2014 crimes, for which he had been given a long jail term and the sexual harm prevention order, had been the “most serious and concerning” of sexual offences.

In the more recent stalking offence, he had been “intimidating” and “threatening” after failing to accept that it was over.

Adrian was given a ten-week jail term. “But very soon after being released,” said the judge, “you contacted the police to register a new phone so that, in accordance with your sexual harm prevention order, monitoring software could be installed.

“What became apparent to the police was that the first thing you had done was seemingly to download a number of dating websites.” Adrian knew deleting that search history was a breach of his order.

The judge jailed Adrian, formerly of the Penrith area, for ten months.