Female paedophile exposed after neighbour spots Christmas card from sex offenders charity
Tracy Lyons had a card from Circles which helps rehabilitate sex offenders
A CHRISTMAS card from a charity which befriends sex attackers blew the cover of one of Britain's most notorious female paedophiles.
Tracy Lyons, 46, had been living under a different surname after she was released from prison for her part in a paedo ring led by Little Teds nursery worker Vanessa George and her online lover Colin Blanchard.
The neighbour then searched the charity, which is based in Reading, Berks, and discovered it is a group which helps rehabilitate sex offenders by providing them with volunteer "friends" and organising days out.
Neighbour Richard Hurren spotted the card on December 22.
He had befriended Lyons and had no idea of her real identity.
Richard, who was curious of finding out more, went online and found out his "friend" had been jailed for four years in 2011 over a paedo ring which centred on abuse of tots at a nursery in Plymouth, Devon.
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After he found out the truth. Richard alerted the neighbours and then confronted Lyons on Christmas Eve.
It is believed she phoned the police before she packed her belongings and then left her home in a taxi.
She has reportedly been rehoused.
Richard said: "She left with her head down and didn’t look at anyone or say anything.
";We were friends and would often chat and have coffee. I feel betrayed. People like that should be locked up forever."
Lyons pleaded guilty in March 2010 to assault of a child by penetration, sexual assault of a child under 13, causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and three offences of distributing indecent photographs of a child.
She was among at least five members of a nationwide paedophile gang linked to the Little Teds nursery.
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