Tyler Allen – Brockworth, Gloucestershire

A 20-year-old man who manipulated and threatened children into sending him intimate/sexual images and videos of themselves has been sentenced.

Tyler Allen threatened to kill and rape one of the girls when she refused to do what he demanded.

Following an investigation by Gloucestershire Police’s Child Exploitation Team he was charged with 10 offences which related to five girls.

On 9 July this year Allen, of Vicarage Court in Brockworth, pleaded guilty to six counts of causing/inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two charges of causing a child to watch a sexual act and two charges of engaging in sexual communication with a child.

Allen was sentenced at Gloucester Crown Court yesterday (Thursday 30 October) to 22 months detention in a young offenders’ institution and he was also made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.