BEYOND BELIEF

Chatroom members posted films and photos on the site called Kids The Light Of Our Lives. They showed people abusing their young, some only two months old.

Police rescued 31 youngsters and babies – 20 of them from Britain – and arrested more than 100 suspects in the UK alone.

Cox, who called himself Son of God in tribute to a US web paedo dubbed G.O.D. – had more than 75,000 sick images on his computer and supplied 11,000 to others.

Cox admitted six offences of having indecent images of children with intent to show them and two of distributing them – all carrying a maximum ten-year sentence.

Locked up indefinitely in June 2007, he served only four years, nine months.

After release he changed his name, moved into his new home near the school and got a job in a local furniture store.

But a customer recognised him and he was named on paedo tracking site UK Database. The mum of one pupil said: “Police say these people are heavily monitored but they won’t elaborate further. To learn on social media doesn’t seem right. I want to see him moved. I don’t see why people like us should live in fear.”

The Parole Board confirmed it released Cox in March 2012.

The board said: “Decisions are solely focused on whether a prisoner would represent a significant risk to the public after release. Public safety is our number one priority.” It is understood Cox got a job as an assistant sales manager at DFS in Colchester, Essex, under the name Martyn Summers, after lying about his past but was sacked after a customer recognised him. DFS said: “Summers was dismissed in August 2018. We do not comment on the detail of individual employment cases.” Suffolk Police said: “We work with our partners to put stringent processes in place to ensure all registered sex offenders are adequately monitored.”

The Prison and Probation Service said: “Our priority is to protect the public. Sex offenders released on licence are robustly risk-assessed and subject to a strict set of conditions. They are supervised and any offender who breaches their licence conditions faces going back to prison.”

Cox’s key lieutenant, Gordon Mcintosh, 43, of Welwyn Garden City, Herts, was freed last year.