A judge said it was a time a man paid for his actions, before jailing him for sexual offences.

Darren Reynolds, 45, of Wagtail Drive, Heybridge, was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court this afternoon for one charge of exposing himself to a child and one of breaching a sexual offences prevention order stopping him talking to children.

Judge Patricia Lynch jailed him for two years and five months, saying: "Children should be protected, children should be nurtured and cherished, not scared by men who get some sort of sexual thrill by exposing themselves."