Pair locked up for 30 months for child prostitution and porn offences

Two men have been jailed for two-and-a-half years for controlling prostitution and the possession and distribution of indecent images.

Clinton Easy, 31, of no fixed abode but from the Catford area of Lewisham, was sentenced on Friday at Woolwich Crown Court for two counts of controlling prostitution and distributing indecent images.

Tyler Belgrave-Breeds, 33, of Walsham Close, Thamesmead, was sentenced in the same hearing to an identical jail term for the same offences.

Both men were given a sexual harm prevention order and placed on the sex offenders register for seven years.

They had pleaded guilty to the offences at an earlier hearing.

Easy was caught after evidence from online websites showed he was advertising children to be used for sexual acts.

Once arrested, in November 2021, officers seized all of Easy’s devices and began the work to scan for incriminating messages, also discovering a series of adverts he had made to arrange sex with the young girls. Several indecent images were also found on his phone.

As a result, Met officers successfully safeguarded three victims aged 13-17 during the investigation, after identifying them from phone analysis and trawling through text messages from Easy’s phone.

Met detectives traced Easy’s adverts to a second man, Tyler Belgrave-Breeds. Officers gathered evidence to prove that Belgrave-Breeds had paid for online advertisement space to promote sex with the victims.

Detective Sergeant Katy Lee, who led the investigation, said: “This investigation was complex with the team reviewing thousands of text messages and tracing different sim cards used by the suspects to try and avoid being caught.

“We are thorough in our work and will leave no stone unturned to build up evidence and help get these criminals behind bars and safeguard their victims from further harm.

“We take harm to children and girls with the utmost seriousness and I am proud we are able to protect our communities as part of our mission to make London safer for women and girls.”

Commander Ben Russell, who leads V100 – the group set up by the Met to target the capital’s most dangerous and  violent criminals – said: “Through V100 we’re able to identify the most predatory offenders in London who pose the greatest threat to women and girls.”

The ‘V100’ uses data analytics to identify and target the top men and women who pose the most risk using existing police data from victim reports of crime alongside the Cambridge Crime Harm Index, a tool which helps police measure the seriousness of harm to victims.

This enables the Met to prioritise police interventions to have the biggest impact.

Pictured top: Clinton Easy (left) and Tyler Belgrave-Breeds (Pictures: The Met)