Paedophile who was waiting for the ‘perfect opportunity’ to snatch a five-year-old child and wrote fantasies about abducting kids is jailed for 12 years
Stephen Kelly, 50, penned sick stories about youngsters he saw on the street - and even followed one mum and her child to their home a week before he was caught by cops leering at kids in a park
A PAEDOPHILE who wrote fantasies about abducting kids and was waiting for the "perfect opportunity" to snatch a five-year-old has been jailed for 12 years.
Stephen Kelly, 50, penned sick stories about youngsters he saw on the street - and even followed one mum and her child to their home a week before he was caught by cops leering at kids in a park.
The serial perv was given a six-year jail term with a six-year extension by a judge who said he posed a very significant threat to young children.
Kelly pleaded guilty to four charges of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and attempting to facilitate a child sex offence.
He had two previous convictions for possessing indecent images of children - from 1998 and 2015.
Kelly was caught after monitoring officers found him sitting in a park where children were playing.
Prosecutor Nigel Ogborne said Kelly was being watched by police as he was a known threat.
He said: "The police were concerned about the defendant and were visiting him twice weekly as he was regarded as a very high risk sex offender.
"He admitted he posed a significant risk to young children and was waiting for the perfect opportunity to abduct and abuse a five-year-old child."
Kelly was spotted in Manor Park in Luton, Beds, at 3.15pm on August 16 - four days after being brought to court to have the terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order toughened.
He had been banned from going within 25 metres of a children's park, play or recreation area and was also banned from being in possession of photographs of children.
Officers arrested him at the park and searched his home in the town where they discovered photographs of youngsters along with obscene comments.
Depraved Kelly had also written two stories about abducting young children who he had seen at a supermarket and on a residential road.
When detectives quizzed him he admitted following a mum and her child home and standing outside the house for a minute on 9 August.
Judge Michael Kay QC told Kelly: "You were intending to create an opportunity to abduct and sexually abuse a child.
"You need to be treated and you need to be treated in a custodial setting."
Dominic Woolard, defending, said: "He is a 50-year-old man who lived alone. He has been very candid and has pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.
"He is open to treatment and wants to be cured."
Kelly will be eligible to apply for parole after he has served four years, but will only be released within the following eight years if the parole board consider it is safe.
He will remain on the sex offenders register for life.
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