PAEDOPHILE ANDREW RAINE BROKE SHPO 19 TIMES AT YORK HOSTEL
A PAEDOPHILE staying at the York probation hostel 19 times defied a court order designed to protect children from him and curb his behaviour, the city’s magistrates court heard.Andrew Raine, 45, was on parole, having been released partway through an 11-year extended prison sentence for sexual assaults of a child.
He was also subject to a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) restricting his use of the internet and other conditions designed to prevent him abusing children.
Between March 2 and March 24 this year, he repeatedly downloaded apps relating to children as well as an app that enabled him to delete evidence of what he was doing, the court heard.
Both actions were forbidden by the SHPO.
District judge Adrian Lower told him: “Nothing will stop you from accessing the internet to further your perverted desires.” Raine’s previous convictions showed he had previously used “totally unhealthy and unacceptable behaviour towards children”.
He gave Raine the maximum sentence he could: 12 months’ imprisonment.
Raine, who gave his address as the hostel in Boroughbridge Road, York, pleaded guilty to 19 breaches of the SHPO.
It had been imposed at Newcastle Crown Court in 2018 when he was sentenced for two offences of sexual assault of a child and was jailed for eight years, plus three years extended parole on release.
The York court heard that following his arrest in York, his parole was revoked and he has been recalled to prison to continue serving the Newcastle sentence until 2029.
Under the SHPO which will last for the rest of his life, Raine is prohibited from downloading any app to his mobile phone or internet device without informing police, deleting any of his internet history or have software that could wipe his internet history, among other conditions.
He is also on the sex offenders’ register for life.
His solicitor Kevin Blount said Raine himself had told police that he had broken the order by downloading an app without telling officers.
When they inspected his phone, they found he had downloaded not one but 19 apps.
He was arrested and the parole board informed of his actions.
Mr Blount said the only sentence the judge could impose was one of imprisonment as the parole board had recalled him to prison.
