JORDAN CAVE – LONDON

❌JORDAN CAVE – LONDON❌

Feb 2026 – Despicable’ child-sex attacker walks free from court — detective stunned by sentence

A Metropolitan Police detective said he was “ready to quit” after seeing Jordan Cave, 28, escape an immediate jail term for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy and hoarding thousands of indecent images of children.

Cave was working as an IT technician at The Latymer School when he lured the boy to a secluded area and filmed himself groping and licking the child through his clothing. The ten-minute video was saved in a computer folder labelled “Latymer”, alongside other files named after boys.

Police cyber-crime officers spotted suspicious uploads to a Dropbox account in 2022 and traced them to Cave’s then address in Waltham Forest. A search uncovered 3,823 indecent images of children, including 907 Category A files—the most serious—and 216 prohibited Category A videos. Cave later moved to Hubberstone in Pembrokeshire, where he was arrested and charged.

At Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday, Recorder Maryam Syed KC accepted guilty pleas to sexual assault, making indecent photographs of children (Categories A–C) and possessing extreme pornography.

The judge said a “normal adult” would have faced at least four years’ custody, but cut the starting point to three years because Cave has autism and ADHD and had been stabbed as a child. A further one-third reduction for early pleas produced a two-year sentence suspended for two years.

Conditions imposed
• Four-month home curfew (7 p.m.–7 a.m.)
• 200 hours unpaid work
• 20 days rehabilitation activity
• 26 sessions on an intensive sex-offender programme
• 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order
• 12 months probation supervision
• £800 compensation to the victim
• Indefinite entry on the sex-offenders’ register

Recorder Syed warned Cave: “If there’s any breach, the only place you are going is prison.”

A detective from the Met’s Child Sexual Abuse team, who spent years building the case, bowed his head and covered his face as sentence was passed. Leaving the courtroom he muttered that he might “actually quit” policing after what he called a “despicable” outcome.

Barrister Charlie Austin-Groome said Cave’s neuro-developmental disorders, immaturity and remorse made his case “truly exceptional”. A probation officer and psychosexual specialist told the court that prison could worsen Cave’s mental health and impede rehabilitation.

The victim did not provide an impact statement, but the judge said “the impact is clear” and described the assault as “terrifying and deeply distressing”. Child-protection charities criticised the suspended sentence, warning it may deter victims from reporting abuse.

With prisons near capacity, suspended sentences for image-based child-sex offences are increasingly common. However, specialists say it remains rare for contact offenders to avoid custody. Officers fighting online child abuse called the decision “a setback” for deterrence.