Police in Leeds appeal for help tracing 'high risk' Beeston paedophile after failing to attend probation appointment
Police have issued an appeal for help finding a “high risk” Leeds paedophile after ”extensive arrest enquiries” failed to trace him.
Information is needed to help locate Darren Inkpen, aged 55, who is wanted for failing to comply with the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders’ Register.
Inkpen was released from prison on November 13 and was due to stay at a hotel in Leeds. But he failed to register an address and did not turn up for a probation appointment.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: “Officers have conducted extensive arrest enquiries in order to try and locate Inkpen and are now appealing for the public’s help.
“They have released two images of Inkpen – one more recent than the other.”
Inkpen, from Beeston, was jailed in 2021 for five years over the sexual assault of a teenager in Hartlepool. At his sentencing it was heard that he poses a “serious risk to children”. He was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.
He has connections to the Kent and Sussex area and is thought that he could possibly be in the Broadstairs area of Kent or Newhaven in Sussex.
Anyone with information which may assist to locate Darren Inkpen is asked to contact West Yorkshire Police by calling 101 or by going online through the LiveChat facility quoting reference 13250661376.c
Alternatively, call independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.