BEAST BACK IN JAIL OVER PHONE BREACH
Paedophile enjoyed ‘clandestine’ contact with his long-term girlfriend of 18 years
A DANGEROUS paedophile who changed his identity to hide his sordid past has been jailed again after trying to contact a mother he was having an illicit relationship with.
Steven MacDonald broke the strict terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) by buying mobile phones so he could have “clandestine” contact.
MacDonald – known as Steven Perrie before legally changing his name – was jailed for a further 20 months at Dundee Sheriff Court.
The same court had previously heard how MacDonald had spent £42 changing his name to reinvent himself as a respectable family man and business owner.
The 55-year-old, from Montrose, was jailed for 232 days earlier this year after the court heard he had broken rules banning him from having contact with children.
Now he has admitted further breaches of his SOPO by owning or possessing more than one mobile phone capable of accessing the internet. The court heard how MacDonald bought two mobile phones in order to have “clandestine” contact with the woman who lived with a child.
He was released from prison in May after being locked up for previous SOPO breaches.
Solicitor Scott Norrie said: “The phones were for clandestine means of communication between him and his long-term girlfriend.”
MacDonald, a prisoner at HMP Perth, and the woman had been in a relationship for 18 years but she has been subject to social work involvement and advised that she should not have communication with him.
He pled guilty to breaching the terms of his SOPO by owning or possessing more than one mobile phone between July 9-28.
MacDonald was jailed in 2004 after being caught with hundreds of thousands of indecent images of children.
Similar offences saw him locked up for 26 months in 2005, before he was given a High Court jail sentence of eight years in 2012.