A paedophile’s wife lived in terror after he was jailed for his years of sex crimes, a court was told.
Every window was smashed in their home on a Teesside estate, it was repeatedly burgled and an attempt was made to set fire to the family’s car.
His wife became yet one more victim of 44-year-old Simon Evans’ depravity while he was securely locked up in Holme House Prison, Stockton.
Evans’ barrister Kate Dodds told Teesside Crown Court that the vigilante attacks began immediately after the address was made public in unrestricted reports of his case and she successfully applied for a ban on its further publication.
Making the order today judge Recorder Felicity Davies said: “It was extremely unfortunate that acts of damage were caused to the property, which must have been extremely frightening for his wife.”
Evans, who ran discos with his wife, had breached a Sexual Offences Prevention Order by twice contacting a 17-year-old girl on Facebook when he was banned from having contact with anybody under 18.
Prosecutor Rachel Masters said that he was jailed for four years in 1992 for serious sexual offences against a boy.
He completed 70 hours on a sex offender’s treatment programme while in prison, and on his release he was monitored and given a Life Plan to support him in future relationships.
In 2005 there was a risk assessment report on him compiled by the NSPCC but he did not comply with the plan and in April 2010 Social Services applied to magistrates for a Sexual Offences Prevention Order against him.
But Evans repeatedly breached it by contacting single mothers on UK Chatterbox sometimes staying overnight with them and their children in their homes, and he fathered a child with one of them.
He was later jailed for 30 months for breaches of the order and he was released in December 2013.
He is now on licence recall in prison until March 21.
Miss Dodds told the judge: “He invites the court to see that giving him some help rather than a prison sentence would be the most practical way of dealing with him.”
The judge told him: “This latest offence was a flagrant breach of this order, as you well knew.
“You seem to fail to grasp that Social Services have a duty to protect children from sexual offenders such as you and that is why they are vigilant about your behaviour and that is why the order was obtained against you in 2010.”
Evans, whose address cannot be published, was jailed for 10 months after he pleaded guilty to breaching the order.
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