Pervert pensioner jailed for breaching court order
Pervert Peter Ferguson has been jailed for six months after he breached a court order.
The 73-year-old has previous convictions against children and is the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
But Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard he breached the order by visiting a neighbour when his child was there.
Prosecutor Antony Longworth said the defendant asked the man in the flat above his own for a cup of milk on February 9. He was invited in and while there he spoke to the man’s child.
Mr Longworth added: “It is not suggested the defendant did anything improper. He was prohibited from being in any premises where he knew there was a child under 16.”
Ferguson, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Judge Paul Glenn said: “The breach in this case was comparatively minor. You had some contact with a child living in the flat above . There is no suggestion your behaviour was inappropriate, but you disregarded a court order designed to protect children. I am sure the child’s father would have been shocked once the police spoke to him.
“You still remain a high risk towards children.”
February 2015
Paedophile pensioner jailed for breaching order for third time
A 71-year-old serial paedophile who has 15 sex offence convictions, has been jailed for six months in prison for breaching a prevention order.
Peter Ferguson, of Beverley Drive, Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent, pleaded guilty to breaching his Sexual Offence Prevention Order, for the third time when he was spotted talking to a three-year-old boy.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard that an off-duty probation officer happened to stop at a junction in Stoke-on-Trent, when she saw Ferguson in his mobility scooter.
She recognised him as a registered sex offender and remembered the terms of his prevention order.
She then saw him reaching in to a basket on his scooter to show something to the young boy, as they spoke.
The court also heard how Ferguson has been convicted of 15 sexual offences since 1963, including serving a 13-year prison sentence for indecent assault on an under 14 and buggery on an under 16 in 1995.
Since being released in 2007, he had breached his Sexual Offences Prevention Order, which forbids contact with anybody under the age of 16, three times.
Mr Recorder Desmond said: “You present a serious risk of harm to children.
“If you do this again there will be no excuse of the boy started talking to you first.
“There will be no excuse that you simply forgot about the Prevention Order.”
Ferguson was sentenced to six months in prison, of which he will serve up to half.
