Man who befriended families to prey on children jailed
Cambridgeshire Police found hundreds of indecent images and videos of children on two of Ingram's phones.The force said there was also video footage showing Ingram sexually abusing a boy. Officers were able to identify the boy who lived in the Greater Manchester area and it was confirmed Ingram had stayed at the address at the time the videos were recorded. Another boy was identified by officers, who visited his home in West Mercia. He said Ingram contacted him via a computer game in 2020 when he was 10 years old and persuaded him to send an indecent image of himself.
'Devious sex offender'
At Cambridge Crown Court Ingram was found guilty of two counts of assaulting a boy under 13 by touching, one count of inciting a male child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, three counts of possessing indecent photographs of a child and had four breaches of a sexual harm prevention order. PC Paul Evans said: "Ingram is a devious sex offender who befriended families and manipulated his way into their homes specifically so he could prey on their children."I'd like to commend all the children involved who assisted us with the investigation and their families."Their bravery in talking about what happened to them has resulted in Ingram being brought to justice."
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