Paedophile jailed over phone bid to contact mother

A PAEDOPHILE who changed his identity to hide his past has been jailed again after trying to contact a mother with whom he had an illicit relationship.

Steven MacDonald admitted breaking the terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) by buying mobile phones so he could have ‘clandestine’ contact with the woman.

The 55-year-old – previously 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 he had spent £42 changing his name to reinvent himself as a respectable family man and business owner.

MacDonald, from Montrose, Angus, was jailed for 232 days earlier this year after breaking rules banning him from contact with children.

Regarding the most recent SOPO breach, the court was told MacDonald bought two mobile phones to contact the woman,

‘Clandestine contact’

who lived with a child. Fiscal depute Gavin Letford said MacDonald was under supervision by officers who were aware that he had purchased a Sony Xperia phone.

Two months later, during an unannounced home visit by police, MacDonald said the phone had broken and he intended to buy a new one.

Mr Letford said: ‘Police received intelligence that the accused had purchased a phone and top-up voucher in Aberdeenshire. He had made no contact with the relevant department about this.’

MacDonald and the woman were said to have been in a relationship for 18 years but she had been advised she should not be in communication with him. He 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.