A high-risk non-binary Stockton Paedophile child sex offender, Luke Hardy, has returned to court for violating the conditions of a court order intended to rectify their aberrant behaviour.
Zoe Spooks Hardy, arrested and accused as Luke Hardy, utilised various identities for online accounts, including those for dating and gaming applications.
The 24-year-old, Luke Hardy, was subjected to a sexual harm prevention order in October 2022 for a duration of five years following a conviction for three charges of producing indecent photos of children, including eight of the most severe category.
The Court was informed that his sexual offences commenced in 2015 when he was convicted of raping a severely inebriated 12-year-old girl at a party in a Darlington field.
Luke Hardy received a community order for the two rapes of the 12-year-old girl and then appeared in court for engaging in consensual sex with a juvenile girl at Blackwell Golf Club in 2016. He subsequently transmitted an image of his genitalia to another 12-year-old girl.
In 2017, he was convicted of violating his Sexual Harm Prevention Order by utilising the pseudonym ‘BoroLad12’ online to access the dating site ‘Plenty of Fish’.
In the most recent case, Saba Shan, representing the prosecution, stated that the defendant was apprehended following a police tip-off on their online conduct, leading to the confiscation of a mobile phone by officials.
She said: “The officers identified that the defendant had been using three different alias names on a dating site, including the alias name ZHSpooks2k.
“Secondly, there was an email account registered under a female name. Finally, on the Clash of Clans online game, the defendant was using the alias name of ZoeH1337.”
Ms Shan said the defendant admitted using all three aliases when interviewed by police.
The court heard how the defendant has three previous offences for making indecent images of children and additional breaches of the SHPO.
Hardy breached that order in 2023 by deleting the internet history on their phone, including erasing dating apps from the handset.
Later in the same year, they were given a suspended sentence for a further breach of the SHPO after they downloaded Grindr, Kik, Growlr and Tinder.
Hardy, of Yarm Lane, Stockton, pleaded guilty to three breaches of their SHPO following their arrest last month in Bishop Auckland.
Judge Richard Clews jailed Hardy for eight months for breaching the SHPOs and an extra month when he activated part of previous suspended sentences.
He told the defendant: “It is appropriate to describe the breaches of the Sexual Harm Prevention Order as persistent and deliberate.”
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