A convicted sex offender who completed gardening work at a school was among those sentenced to jail at Ipswich Crown Court this week.

Kevin Corrick

Ipswich Star: Kevin Corrick was jailed for 16 monthsKevin Corrick was jailed for 16 months (Image: Suffolk police)Ipswich Crown Court heard how 63-year-old Kevin Corrick delivered gardening products and cut grass for a school over a 10-month period without telling anyone he was banned from going to schools under a sexual harm prevention order. 

Corrick, of Nightingale Court in Blybergate near Beccles, admitted four breaches of the order made in 2012 after he was jailed for 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting a schoolgirl along with making indecent images of children. 

He denied visiting the school to get access to children but admitted being sexually attracted to children telling police officers "I can't help what's in my head".

At the sentencing Judge Emma Peter said sexual harm prevention orders were important in ensuring that people convicted of sex offences were regulated when they were released from prison.

Corrick was sentenced to 16 months in jail.

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Benjamin Harding

On February 21 and April 28, 35-year-old Suffolk man Benjamin Harding entered a petrol station at Longwater in Costessey on the outskirts of Norwich and stole alcoholic drinks and food. 

He was arrested on Saturday, May 25 and was found to be in possession of a substance later confirmed as amphetamine. 

Harding, of Ducksen Road in Stowmarket, admitted six additional shoplifting offences which happened between May 13 and 25 at the Co-op in Kestrel Avenue and the Sainsbury's in William Frost Way in the town.

Harding appeared at Norwich Magistrates' Court on Monday, May 27 and pleaded guilty to two counts of shoplifting and one count of possession of a controlled class B drug. 

He was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £154.