{"id":971107,"date":"2026-05-19T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/971107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:41:18","slug":"bristol-man-accused-of-more-than-20-child-sex-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/971107\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol man accused of more than 20 child sex offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was remanded in custody<\/p>\n<p>14:19, 19 May 2026Updated 14:21, 19 May 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_RGP_MDM_250121Colston_01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Bristol Magistrates' Court\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court(Image: Rowan Griffiths)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man has appeared in court facing more than 20 charges against children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Josh Scott, 36, was charged last Friday (May 15) with 27 charges in total, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"LiItem_li-item__IF4xI\">Three counts of making indecent photographs of a child (category A, B and C)<\/li>\n<li class=\"LiItem_li-item__IF4xI\">One count of possession of extreme pornographic images involving animals<\/li>\n<li class=\"LiItem_li-item__IF4xI\">Ten counts of causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity<\/li>\n<li class=\"LiItem_li-item__IF4xI\">Three counts of causing a child to watch or look at an image of sexual activity<\/li>\n<li class=\"LiItem_li-item__IF4xI\">Ten counts of taking indecent photograph of a child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The charges relate to an investigation into incidents which took place between August and December 2025 and are all online-based crimes against real world victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Scott, of Wilshire Avenue in Hanham, appeared at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court and was remanded to appear at Bristol Crown Court on June 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was remanded in custody 14:19, 19 May 2026Updated 14:21, 19 May 2026 Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court(Image: Rowan Griffiths)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":971108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,188,393,4884,30863,16,15],"class_list":["post-971107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-hanham","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116601533606327124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}