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He had served 18 years in Australian prisons and after being released from his last sentence he was deported to the UK.
A sadistic paedophile who went on the run after being kicked out of Australia was yesterday jailed for three years.
British born Kenneth Trotter, 78, served a series of jail sentences Down Under before being sent back to the UK last year.
Now the serial sex offender has been locked up after a judge described him as an exceptionally dangerous man
Trotter had been ordered to tell police if he changed his address.
But a court was told he blatantly and flagrantly breached the order by pre-meditated and wilful acts of defiance.
At one stage officers had no idea where he was and had to launch a public appeal for help.
The pervert was branded sadistic and callous by a judge who jailed him for child sex attacks in New South Wales.
He had served 18 years in Australian prisons and after being released from his last sentence he was deported to the UK.
But last year a court heard how within a month of landing Trotter had tricked his way into a church group to meet girls.
He had pretended to have been sent from a Jobcentre to hire 14-year-olds to work as canvassers. He even tried to lure girls to live with him.
Trotter, who had set up home in Blackpool, Lancashire, had denied two breaches of the order.
Jailing him for three years at Preston Crown Court, Judge Graham Knowles QC said he had been determined to give police the slip.
He said Trotter had a long and foul history of sexual depravity in Australia, where a list of 36 offences included indecent assault and gross indecency.
And he added: You, Trotter, in my view, are an exceptionally dangerous man with nothing to lose.
A pre-sentence report by the probation service speaks of prolific sexual offending against vulnerable male children, the predatory manipulative nature of offending, your portrayal of yourself as a victim, your refusal to accept any responsibility for your behaviour, your lack of remorse, your continued denial of any sexual interest in children and a lack of victim empathy.
The court had heard how on four separate occasions he visited a mother of four in Blackpool, pretending to be canvassing for work for sewing machine repairs.
It was the same ruse which had been a feature of his offending in Australia where he had lived for more than fifty years.
He had dual nationality but his Australian citizenship was revoked when he was booted out last year.