Serial pervert Gary Anderson was back behind bars again today after being caught with more child porn. The disgraced teacher was jailed less than two years after being released from prison for distributing the filth.
Anderson, changed his name from Simeon Hope when he was arrested last year for downloading and keeping 37 indecent pictures of children, who were visibly upset and scared by the perverted ordeal they were going through.
Anderson, originally from Brandon, Co Durham, but now of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, was jailed for 18 months and banned from ever working with children or keeping a computer with internet access.
An Extended Licence Period of four-and-a-half years upon release was also imposed by the Judge at Derby Crown Court, who told Anderson: "The public and children need protection from you over a very long period."
Edward Barr, prosecuting, told the court Anderson bought a computer from a newspaper advert and asked a man to teach him more about computer technology. But when the man found child porn on Anderson's computer he contacted police who raided the pervert's home in July 2002 and found 37 downloaded pictures. Under police questioning Anderson told officers he visited the sites because he liked children. He admitted 12 charges of making indecent pictures and asked for a further 25 pictures to be taken into consideration. Another charge of possessing 102 images, which Anderson denied, will lie on file.
Anderson, a former Green Party election candidate, was sentenced to 18 months in prison at Durham Crown Court in 2000 for distributing child pornography and storing more than 51,000 indecent images on his computer.
At the time of his arrest he had daily contact with children through his work as a supply teacher.
When officers raided the house in Willington, Co Durham, Anderson shared with his wife they also found 69 child pornography videos and 800 photographs of young children.
Anderson, a serial pervert, who admitted he was sexually attracted to girls aged 8 to 12 after police found 810 indecent images in his Derby home, has been jailed.
Gary Anderson admitted to police he was sexually attracted to girls aged 8 to 12 after officers raided his Derby home and found 810 indecent images of children.
Anderson, who changed his name from Simeon Hope following his arrest in 2002, wrote an open letter to The Northern Echo in 1998 (before any of his convictions) complaining that "Children were over-protected by society".
The former Green Party candidate moved from Brandon, County Durham, to Derbyshire following his release from prison in 2001.
Police said yesterday they were delighted Anderson, of Osmaston Road, Derby, had been issued with a Sexual Offences Prevention Order, meaning they can monitor him more closely on his release from prison.
Anderson pleaded guilty to eight counts of either making or possessing images of children.
The court heard that during a police interview following his arrest last year, he told officers he wanted to re-offend and a treatment course he had been on in prison to understand better his sexual urges was "run by fools".
Passing sentence, Recorder Peter Joyce said: "He [Anderson] blames society's attitudes rather than believing he is in the wrong."
"Here is a man who fantasises about young girls in a perverted manner."
"He says he feels persecuted [for his urges] in the same way that gay people did."
"Simply having these urges, having these thoughts, is wrong."
The court heard that Anderson was caught with more than 5,000 indecent images on a computer and three photo albums in 1999, for which he was jailed for 18 months by Durham Crown Court.
After being released, he was then sentenced to another 18 months by Derby Crown Court and disqualified from working with children for life after officers discovered 149 indecent images, again on a computer.
The serial pervert who once worked as a teacher in the North-East mocked a prison treatment programme he was on saying it was "run by fools" , a court was told.
He was jailed by a Derby Crown Court judge for nine months yesterday after his third conviction, following previous jail sentences imposed in 2000 and 2003 for similar offences.
Derby Crown Court heard that former music teacher and Green Party candidate Gary Anderson had been convicted in 2000 and 2003 for similar offences.
Simeon Hope, formerly named Gary Anderson, admitted breaching a court order by accessing more paedophilia on the internet.
He was previously jailed for possessing a sickening stash of videos and photo albums featuring children.
Hope [Anderson], who once said he worked with "Really Hot Kids", moved to Scotland following his release from prison, and in October 2014 the Barrhead News tracked him down to a small council flat in the town's Dalmeny Drive where his neighbours had no idea about his disturbing background.
Unknown to people living there, Hope had been jailed three times over his sexual fascination with children. And once again he is behind bars with the threat of a lengthy jail term hanging over his head.
Hope was arrested on November 4 2014 – less than two weeks after his true identity was exposed. That prompted East Renfrewshire Council to move him out of his Barrhead flat and into alternative accommodation in Clarkston. And that's where he was arrested by police who had gone to his home along with his social worker.
Due to Hope's habit of downloading illegal pornography he is the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) which forbids him from owning anything which can be used to access the internet, but when police searched his house they found a tablet and a laptop hidden in his bedroom. The items were seized and analysed by experts who made a disturbing discovery.
On Wednesday, January 7, Amanda Gallagher, prosecuting, told Paisley Sheriff Court: "The items were checked by the cyber crime unit who found that the laptop had one indecent image." adding "It was a full-frontal naked picture of a pre-pubescent boy." Gallagher said the indecent picture had been downloaded by Hope sometime between June and November 4 2014, the day he was arrested. He appeared in court the next day and was remanded in custody as prosecutors prepared the case against him.
Hope celebrated his 49th birthday behind bars and when he appeared in the dock again he admitted breaching the terms of the SOPO. Hope spoke only to confirm his name, telling a court employee he was Simeon Hope and not Simon. He pleaded guilty to the four charges, namely having a tablet and laptop while forbidden from owning internet-abled devices, downloading child pornography and possessing the illegal image.
Sheriff Robert Fife called for Hope to be assessed by social workers and deferred sentence for a month.
Hope openly admitted to being sexually attracted to girls aged between eight and 12.
During one of his court cases in England it emerged that, in online chats with fellow paedophiles, he had confessed: "I used to be a teacher and met a lot of really hot kids." He also branded people assigned to treat him "Fools" and bragged "My strategy is to tell these lovely, caring people what they like to hear." Hope was jailed by a Derby Crown Court judge for nine months in 2010 after his third conviction, following previous jail sentences in 2000 and 2003 for similar offences.
The former Green Party candidate, originally from County Durham, moved to Derbyshire after his release from prison in 2001. In 1999 Hope, then known as Gary Anderson, was caught with more than 5,000 indecent images on a computer and three photo albums.
He was jailed for 18 months by Durham Crown Court. After being released, he was then sentenced to another 18 months by Derby Crown Court and disqualified from working with children for life after officers discovered 149 indecent images, again on a computer.
And in 2010, Anderson pleaded guilty in Derby Crown Court to eight counts of either making or possessing images of children. Simeon Hope, formerly named Gary Anderson, admitted breaching a court order by accessing more paedophilia on the internet. He was previously jailed for possessing a sickening stash of videos and photo albums featuring children.