A paedophile repeatedly failed to notify police that he was staying overnight in the homes of families with children, a court has heard. As a registered sex offender Kevin Eardley – who has been going by the name Kevin Jones since his release from prison – was required to tell the authorities if he was going to be spending more than 12 hours at an address where youngsters lived.
But on three separate occasions he went to stay with people who he knew had children without telling the police about his activities – meaning the authorities were not able to inform the families involved. When police tracked the 55-year-old down to the tent where he was living the defendant said he had "forgotten" about the requirement to notify them.
The defendant refused to leave his cell for his sentencing hearing at Swansea Crown Court but sending him to prison a judge described his actions as a "disturbing example of deliberate and repeated non-compliance" with the sex offender notification regime and he said he though Eardley had been "playing cat and mouse with the authorities".
