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Paedo pair spotted in different towns trying to buy new car

written by Stephen Maguire April 21, 2018
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Two paedophiles who have settled in Donegal have been sighted in a number of different towns around the county since yesterday.

Donegal Daily revealed how local Gardai confirmed that the child rapist and his associate have registered as staying in the area.

Child rapist James White, 48, and his sicko pal Jason Lydiard, 26, are now two of the most wanted men in Ireland after they were accused of targeting kids in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, and Bandon in Co Cork.

Gardai issued a nationwide warning about the pair in recent days.

Now sightings of the pair have been made in Letterkenny, Ballybofey, Ramelton and Lifford.

It is understood the pair are driving a blue-coloured Cork-registered Peugeot car which they are trying to sell.

We have learned that they tried to buy another car in Ballybofey yesterday and put on foreign accents to disguise their identity.

An eagle-eyed reader also spotted them this morning in a supermarket car park in Strabane but they jumped in their car and fled back towards Lifford.

Gardai have intelligence that the duo — both originally from the North and considered “high-risk sex offenders” — have been approaching children as part of a depraved double act.

Although the pair served time in the North, they are still required to inform gardai of their whereabouts here.

A Garda bulletin was sent to every station in the country to warn officers to be on the lookout for the pair.

And Lydiard — who also uses the name Alexis Guesto and considers himself a Born-Again Christian — is also suspected of using a fake social media profile as part of his plans to identify potential victims.

Investigators believe the pair became friends after Lydiard, originally from Co Down, was freed from custody in the North earlier this year.

He had finished a seven-month sentence for ignoring a court order banning him from online dating sites.

Although he has nine previous convictions for sexual assault, assaults causing harm and threats to kill, White is considered to be the more dangerous.

Smith, who is originally from south Armagh, he was jailed here in 1998 for horrific attacks — two counts of buggery and five charges of sexual assault — on a teenage boy in Co Meath. He was freed in 2003.

He once threatened to kill a social worker with a hammer, has 62 previous convictions in all, including sexual assault, assault causing bodily harm and threats to kill.

After completing his sentence here, he returned to the North in 2006 and was living in different areas across the border.

Although the PSNI had been aware of his whereabouts, he disappeared for a year in 2015 despite being on a Sexual Offences Prevention Order — which demands he maintain ­contact with the police.

* If you have spotted these men or have pictures of them, please contact info@donegaldaily.com and we will keep the public alerted to their movements.

Paedo pair spotted in different towns trying to buy new car was last modified: April 25th, 2018 by Stephen Maguire
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Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire is the co-founder of Donegal Daily. He has worked as a reporter for almost 30 years starting locally with the Donegal Peoples Press before moving to the Mirror Group. He continues to contribute daily to national media outlets including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Independent, Irish Sun, Irish Mirror, Irish Star, the Daily Mail and the Examiner.

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