Jail term for sex offender who moved to Fife and offended again

A sex offender, who moved to Fife after an English court convicted him of downloading almost 4,000 indecent images of children, has been jailed for breaching the terms of his sentence.

Tadeusz Checinski, 45, committed the original offences when living in Carlisle.

He was given an eight-month jail sentence but this was suspended and he moved to Lochgelly.

Checinski, a Polish national who cannot speak English, then defied a sexual harm prevention order requiring special monitoring software to be installed on his computer.

He lied to police and social workers, saying he was not going online but checks proved he was.

Previously at Dunfermline Sheriff Court, Checinski, of High Street, Lochgelly, admitted that on September 8 he breached the conditions of the court order by having internet cleaning software and by using internet enabled devices.

Depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf said: “He seemed to have some form of obsession with the internet.”

Defence solicitor Peter Robertson asked the sheriff not to impose a jail sentence.

He said there had been adverse repercussions since his client’s last appearance because the case was covered in the press and social media. These included accommodation problems and losing his job.

“As for him being obsessed, what he was anxious about was that there was no plan put in place about when the monitoring software was to be put on the computer and he was inquiring about the delay,” he added.

Sheriff Richard McFarlane jailed Checinski for four months.