A Burnage man has been jailed for four and a half years at Chester Crown Court on Friday 1 May. He was also made subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.
Talha Ahmed, of Cranford Avenue, had previously pleaded guilty to five counts of attempting to cause a child aged 13 to 15 to look at images of sexual activity, three counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo‑photographs of a child and one count of attempting to incite a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity.
He also pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a prohibited image of a child and one count of possession of indecent images or pseudo‑photographs of a child.
Cheshire Police searched Ahmed’s home address in September 2024 in connection to offences relating to the possession, creation and sharing of indecent images of children.
Ahmed told officers that illicit images had been sent to him by another person but claimed that he had since deleted them. During a subsequent search of the property, officers seized two mobile phones belonging to him.
While interviewed in custody, Ahmed was questioned about the possession and distribution of indecent images. He answered “no comment” to all questions and was later released on conditional bail while his devices were examined by digital media investigators.
Examination of the devices revealed the presence of Category A, B and C indecent images of children.
Further evidence showed that Ahmed had also committed additional offences by engaging in sexual communications with a child, requesting intimate images from her and sending sexual images of himself.
Ahmed was arrested and interviewed for a second time in February 2025, during which he was questioned about the sexual communications with the teenager and the exchange of images. He again chose to answer no comment to all questions put to him.
Digital forensic enquiries revealed that Ahmed had been communicating with the child across multiple social media and messaging platforms over a period of three years, from June 2021 to the point of his arrest in September 2024.
Ahmed was 20 years old when the offending began, and the victim was 14.
