Serial child sex offender admits Fife charges

Gang of locals set fire to paedophile Anthony Luckwill’s previous home in Ireland

A notorious paedophile, who claims he was hounded out of his native Ireland, has started a new life in Scotland – but has already fallen foul of the law.

Anthony Luckwill received widespread coverage in the Irish media after being released from a jail term imposed for sexually assaulting young boys after he posed as a TV casting agent.

The predatory paedophile, previously branded “a grave risk to society” by an Irish judge, has a long history of convictions across the UK and the Irish Republic.

Luckwill, 44, has moved into a new home in Fife and a 10-year order aimed at protecting the public from him will expire on September 14.

It is open to Police Scotland to apply for a new order to put in place.

Luckwill was forced to leave Ireland after he was assaulted by an angry group of locals in Dublin and his home was torched.

However, Luckwill, who now prefers to be known as Colin Gregory, was arrested soon after he arrived in Scotland for breaching the terms of his Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).

Luckwill claimed he thought the SOPO did not apply in Scotland and was found by police in possession of banned devices, including a laptop.

At Dunfermline Sheriff Court Luckwill admitted breaching the terms of the SOPO imposed at Mold Crown Court, Wales, by having ownership and possession of a laptop, two cameras and a mobile phone at an Inverkeithing hotel on June 4.

Depute fiscal Dev Kapadia said the Crown was moving for forfeiture of the devices, and Luckwill became agitated and spoke heatedly to his solicitor.

Defence solicitor Elaine Buist told the court, “He’s not happy at the notion of the equipment being seized.”

Sheriff Alison McKay deferred sentence until October 23 to await the outcome of any new SOPO application from the police. Consideration of the forfeiture motion has also been continued to that date.

Luckwill, originally from Dublin, has numerous convictions for child-related sex offences in Ireland, Wales and the Channel Islands.

In June 2013, he was jailed for fourand-a-half years in Ireland for sexually assaulting two boys who thought they were going to TV auditions.