Simeon Hope, formerly named Gary Anderson, admitted breaching a court order by accessing more paedophilia on the internet.

He was previously jailed for possessing a sickening stash of videos and photo albums featuring children.

The Englishman, who once said he worked with “really hot kids”, moved to Scotland following his release from prison, and in October last year the Barrhead News tracked him down to a small council flat in the town’s Dalmeny Drive where his neighbours had no idea about his disturbing background.

Unbeknown to people living there, Hope had been jailed three times over his sexual fascination with children. And we can now reveal that he is behind bars once again with the threat of a lengthy jail term hanging over his head.

Hope was arrested on November 4 last year – less than two weeks after we reported his true identity.

That prompted East Renfrewshire Council to move him out of his Barrhead flat and into alternative accommodation in Clarkston.

And that’s where he was arrested by police who had gone to his home along with his social worker.

Due to Hope’s habit of downloading illegal pornography he is the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) which forbids him from owning anything which can be used to access the internet.

But when police searched his house they found a tablet and a laptop hidden in his bedroom.

The items were seized and analysed by experts who made a disturbing discovery.

On Wednesday, January 7, Amanda Gallagher, prosecuting, told Paisley Sheriff Court: “The items were checked by the cyber crime unit who found that the laptop had one indecent image.

“It was a full-frontal naked picture of a pre-pubescent boy.” Gallagher said the indecent picture had been downloaded by Hope sometime between June and November 4 – the day he was arrested. He appeared in court the next day and was remanded in custody as prosecutors prepared the case against him.

He celebrated his 49th birthday behind bars and when he appeared in the dock again he admitted breaching the terms of the SOPO.

Hope spoke only to confirm his name, telling a court employee he was Simeon Hope and not Simon.

He pleaded guilty to the four charges, namely having a tablet and laptop while forbidden from owning internet-abled devices, downloading child pornography and possessing the illegal image.

Sheriff Robert Fife called for Hope to be assessed by social workers and deferred sentence until later this month.

Paedophile's sick criminal background SIMEON Hope has openly admitted to being sexually attracted to girls aged between eight and 12.

During one of his court cases in England it emerged that, in online chats with fellow paedophiles, he had confessed: “I used to be a teacher and met a lot of really hot kids.” He also branded people assigned to treat him “fools” and bragged: “My strategy is to tell these lovely, caring people what they like to hear.” Hope was jailed by a Derby Crown Court judge for nine months in 2010 after his third conviction, following previous jail sentences in 2000 and 2003 for similar offences.

The former Green Party candidate, originally from County Durham, moved to Derbyshire after his release from prison in 2001.

In 1999 Hope, then known as Gary Anderson, was caught with more than 5,000 indecent images on a computer and three photo albums.

He was jailed for 18 months by Durham Crown Court.

After being released, he was then sentenced to another 18 months by Derby Crown Court and disqualified from working with children for life after officers discovered 149 indecent images, again on a computer.

And in 2010, Anderson pleaded guilty in Derby Crown Court to eight counts of either making or possessing images of children.