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NEIGHBOURS CATCH OUT PAEDOPHILE (not)

NEIGHBOURS CATCH OUT PAEDOPHILE

09:00 - 24 July 2008

A Paedophile was caught breaching a ban on using mobile phones and
computers - after neighbours looked him up on the internet.

Gary Thomas, 41, was sending up to 2,000 text messages a month and
using a dating website.

Neighbours in Mansfield became suspicious when Thomas borrowed one of
their mobile phones, and learned that someone called "Gaz" had been
using a wireless connection.

Their research revealed an article about him being jailed at Mold
Crown Court for 18 months on January 15, 2004, for a sex offence
involving a 14-year-old.

Thomas was also subject to a five-year restraining order, preventing
him using a mobile phone or the internet.

Thomas, previously a railway guard from Swadlincote, was locked up for
18 months for admitting breaching the restraining order when he
appeared at Nottingham Crown Court.

Judge Jonathan Teare said: "I'm confident you knew you might be
contacting girls under the age of 18, but I am not sentencing you on
that basis because there is no evidence you knew they were."

"In March 2007 the neighbours discovered his sex-offending status
through research on the internet," said prosecutor Emma Cutts.

"It became common knowledge about the conviction and statements were
obtained from others who stated they believed seeing Mr Thomas using a
mobile," said Miss Cutts. "A man had the internet and he believed a
person was using his wireless connection called 'Gaz'."

Two phones were seized and found to be registered to Thomas's wife.

"There was high volume usage - up to 2,000 text messages per month and
high volume calls," said Miss Cutts.

Thomas had been contacting women on a dating website. Under-18s had
been contacted on sites that should have been restricted to aged 18 or
over.

"Much of that comes down to the person at the other end indicating
they were 18 or over themselves," said Miss Cutts.

Defending, Andrew Easteal said: "When he was before the courts before
he had to concede he'd targeted sites and chatrooms where there would
be girls in their mid-teens.

"When he started to engage in these matters he quite deliberately
joined sites where the declaration [to be a member] was 18. It wasn't
the cynical exercise of making contact with girls under the age of
16."

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