Mystery surrounds death of 24-year-old Chartham paedophile at Rochester Prison – Kent Online

Mystery surrounds the prison death of a 24-year-old paedophile said to have subjected his young victim to “one of the world’s greatest evils”. Jacob Bean had reported chest pains and that he was struggling to breathe a week before he was found unresponsive in his cell by another inmate at HMP Rochester. Jacob Bean was jailed after grooming a 10-year-old girl on Snapchat. Picture: Kent Police Efforts were made to revive him, but he died at the Category C prison in Fort Road. Bean had lived in Chartham, near Canterbury, before he was jailed for five-and-a-half years in November last year for grooming a 10-year-old girl on Snapchat and WhatsApp. Canterbury Crown Court heard he sent her child abuse videos and photos of his penis, as well as encouraging her to perform sex acts on herself. At the time of his conviction, Bean was already under investigation for the grooming of three other underage girls on Snapchat, as well as making indecent images. Coroner Sarah Clarke opened an inquest into his death at Oakwood House, Maidstone, on Monday, revealing the sex offender died on September 7. Convicted paedophile Jacob Bean, from Chartham, died at HMP Rochester She says on August
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