Preston sex offender Thomas Sheard charged and remanded into custody after being captured by Lancashire Police
Police began searching for the 28-year-old after he failed to register at his local police station...
A Preston sex offender who was wanted by police has been charged and remanded into custody.
Lancashire Police issued a public appeal this week seeking the whereabouts of Thomas Sheard. The 28-year-old was wanted after breaching his sex offender notification requirements for the second time this year.
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He was located and arrested on Tuesday night and taken into custody.
Sheard, of no fixed address, has now been charged with failing to comply with sex offender notification requirements by not registering with police every seven days. He has been further charged with three offences of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
He has been remanded in custody to appear before Preston Magistrates Court today (Thursday, September 24).