Paedo Changed Name 20+ Times

Good morning! Today PG has an utterly shocking story about a convicted paedophile – and former firefighter – who was able to exploit a loophole in the law to adopt more than 20 aliases, concealing his convictions for rape and sexual assault. A former girlfriend bravely reveals how she discovered that the man she had let into her heart, family and home was a convicted sex offender who had repeatedly changed his identity to cover up his past. She is now campaigning for a ban on sex offenders changing their name – and tells the Daily Mail: ‘It’s about protecting other women from him, because I don’t think the police are going to do it.’ A convicted paedophile who changed his name and became president of the Robert Burns World Federation has been jailed for five years after more victims of his historical abuse came forward.

Marc Sherland, now 70, was found guilty in May of indecently assaulting three teenage boys at his Paisley home between 1988 and 1990. He was originally convicted in 1991 of abusing two boys aged eight and 10 when he worked as a council youth worker in Renfrew. Following his earlier conviction, he disguised his past as a sex offender by changing his name, before going on to become a cultural ambassador for Burns' poetry and the Scots language. Sentencing him at Paisley Sheriff Court, Sheriff Gillian Craig said a five-year prison sentence would be followed by three years of supervision after his release. She also imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which prohibits him from having any contact with children for a period of 20 years. Sheriff Craig said Sherland had "intentionally" gained employment working with children and that he had groomed them before carrying out his "appalling" offences. She said Sherland's actions demonstrated his "evil intent" and a "clear pattern of predatory behaviour".