A MAN who stalked an escort and tried to trick her into meeting him by creating fake profiles has been jailed for 26 months.

Henry Jayesimi initially contacted the woman on the AdultWork website asking to meet her and for security purposes she asked him to send her a photograph of himself via Kik Messenger, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

The woman thought that Jayesimi looked “scary and intimidating” and decided she didn’t want to meet him, said Stacey-lee Holland, prosecuting.

A week later she went to a house to meet a customer and was shocked to find it was Jayesimi who had tricked her by sending her a fake picture.

The woman tried to leave by saying she needed to get a condom out of her car but Jayesimi told her to leave something with him because he didn’t think she would come back.

The woman reluctantly had sex with Jayesimi and then blocked future contact with him.

However, he set up new profiles and between 2019 and 2021 he made contact with her on 20 different occasions using different names, said Miss Holland.

The victim told Jayesimi to stop contacting her but in August last year she moved home and was standing on the driveway when she saw him standing across the street.

He later sent her three naked videos of himself and she contacted the police.

The court heard that in 2017 Jayesimi was convicted of inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity and sexual activity with a child under 16.

As part of his sentence he was placed on the sex offenders’ register and made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order.

Jayesimi, 28, of Holt Drive, Colchester, denied stalking the escort but was found guilty after a trial .

He admitted breaching a sexual harm prevention order and the requirements of the sex offenders’ register.

Sentencing Jayesimi, Judge Emma Peters described aspects of his behaviour “deeply troubling” and said the victim had been entitled to say she didn’t want any contact with him.

He was also banned from contacting the victim for five years.