June 2015
Paedophile who spent year on the run before being jailed is released… and goes missing again
A convicted south London paedophile who spent a year on the run before finally being jailed has gone missing again – just days after being released from prison.
Christopher Trinnaman, 37, of Dulwich, posed as a teenage boy in order to groom girls as young as 13 on the internet, the Old Bailey heard before sentencing him in his absence five years ago.
He was missing for a year before finally being caught and jailed in 2011 – but his release on Friday last week he has failed to register with police and is again wanted by Scotland Yard.
The Met described him as “high-risk”. He is subject to a sexual harm prevention order that restricts his internet use and his contact with girls under 18.
Trinnaman was released from HMP Littlehey on Friday and driven to Kings Lynn in Norfolk, police said.
They believe he caught a train from there, possibly towards Merseyside or Nottingham. He may be using another name and may be planning to travel overseas.
At the time of his conviction in May 2010 he had links to Hull, Brighton, London and Scotland.
Trinnaman is 5ft 9ins and of medium build. He has short brown hair, although police say he may have shaved his head. He usually wears glasses.
Anyone who knows where he is or has seen him is asked to call Southwark police on 020 7232 6204.
February 2015
Paedophile with naked pictures of Hull schoolgirls claimed his conviction ‘breached his human rights’
A PAEDOPHILE who persuaded two Hull schoolgirls to send him naked photos tried to overturn his conviction by saying his prosecution breached his human rights.
Christopher Trinnaman, 37, was jailed for four years after being found guilty of inciting the girls, then aged 13 and 14, who he befriended online, to send him the images.
He also tried to lure one of the girls to a Hull hotel.
Trinnaman, who grew up in Hull but now lives in East Dulwich, southeast London, was convicted of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and possessing indecent images.
However, he argued the prosecution against him “breached his rights to freedom of expression”, enshrined in Article 10 of the Human Rights Convention.
But three senior judges sitting at London’s Criminal Appeal Court rejected Trinnaman’s bid to overturn his convictions on human rights grounds, stating his complaints had “no merit” whatsoever.
They said the UK was able to “limit such a right by producing such legislation as to prohibit the incitement of a child to engage in sexual activity”.
Just 24 hours before his trial was due to begin in May 2010, Trinnaman went on the run.
He was sentenced to four years in prison in his absence and was caught just under a year later.
Judge Keith Cutler QC, one of the three appeal judges, said Trinnaman struck up a conversation with the girls, then aged 13 and 14, on the internet in February 2008.
He was pretending to be a teenage boy, the court heard.
Trinnaman and the girls exchanged mobile numbers and email addresses.
After talking to them online, Trinnaman encouraged both girls to undress and to send him photographs.
He eventually asked one to meet him at a hotel in Hull “for sexual activity”.
Police were alerted and during a search of Trinnaman’s home, 28 indecent images of children were found on his computer.
When he was captured in March 2011, he was given an extra three months for failing to surrender to bail.
Trinnaman had already seen one bid to appeal his convictions thrown out by an Appeal Court judge last June
March 2011
ON THE RUN PAEDO GETS CAUGHT AFTER FLASHING
A “potentially violent” paedophile who escaped the law by fleeing to Equador has been captured after flashing in public.
“Sexual predator” Christopher Trinnaman, 33, of Melford Road, Dulwich, went on the run less than 24 hours before he was due to stand trial for grooming two teenage girls for sex on Facebook.
May 2010
Hunt for pervert who groomed girls for sex using Facebook
Detectives are hunting a “sexual predator” who tried to lure two schoolgirls to a hotel after befriending them on Facebook.
Christopher Trinnaman, 32, went on the run before his Old Bailey trial this month. He was jailed for four years in his absence. Yesterday an arrest warrant was issued and police appealed for information to help find him.
The court heard he groomed children, claiming to be a teenage boy, before introducing explicit chat and sending graphic photos of himself.
He boasted he had sex with “loads of girls their age” and even with 11-year-olds. He used the name “Cani”, short for his email address on his Facebook profile.
Prosecutor Alex Lewis said Trinnaman, of Dulwich, began chatting online with two friends, one 13 and the other 14, through MSN. He asked one if she would have sex with him and suggested they all meet in a hotel in Hull.
In 2008 police searched the flat he shared with his wife and found 28 indecent images of children. He was found guilty of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, and possessing indecent images of children.
Judge Peter Thornton QC called him a “sexual predator” and said it was possible he had fled abroad. He is known to have links to Hull, Brighton, London and Scotland.
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