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Banning order for man intent on coercing children into criminality

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December 31, 2025

POLICE have secured a court order to protect children from a young man who was believed to be set on coercing youngsters to commit crime.

Posting on social media, Kingsbridge police said they had helped secure a slavery and trafficking risk order on 22-year-old Jack John Reilly during a hearing at North and East Devon Magistrates Court sitting at Exeter.

The team said the order was sought “to protect children from harm and prevent possible coercion of them to commit crime’

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