Paedophile to learn his fate today

NOTORIOUS Hobart paedophile Darrel George Harington will today discover how much longer he’ll spend at Risdon Prison after a jury saw through his lies and convicted him of fresh child sex offences.

The 68-year-old took the extraordinary step of giving evidence during his February Supreme Court trial — a move rarely taken by an accused person facing serious charges.

Harington had been grooming vulnerable pre-teen and teenage boys — and befriending their parents — since the 1970s.

He is known for his charm and intellect, and even completed a dissertation in the sociology of exceptional children.

Given he’s spent years getting exactly what he wanted in brazen circumstances, he no doubt believed he’d be able to convince a jury of his innocence.

After all, he’d already convinced two previous juries to acquit him of child sex offending in the past.

But the science teacher, who was moved around from job-to-job during his three-decade employment with Tasmania’s education department, has finally run out of luck. He’s already serving a 12year sentence after he finally confessed in 2015 to molesting nine young boys.

At trial this year, Harington denied trying to play a “masturbation game” with a boy in the 1970s.

He also said he’d been assaulted to the point of unconsciousness in jail, and threatened with injury and death.

Today, Supreme Court of Tasmania judge Michael Brett will tell the serial sex offender how old he’ll be when — and if — he is released back into society.