Educator and university employee, and West Lancashire Paedophile, Olaf Raetzel was ultimately incarcerated five years after being apprehended with child sexual abuse tapes.
The 51-year-old, Olaf Raetzel, was apprehended in Ormskirk in May 2015, but did not attend a police interview and thereafter absconded to Ireland.
He commenced a new life in Dublin, where, although his sordid history, he was employed as a content moderator for a major social media corporation.
Olaf Raetzel was apprehended again last September under a European Arrest Warrant and extradited to the UK to confront charges related to 21 disturbing files.
Over five years after a police raid at his residence in West Lancashire, Olaf Raetzel confessed to three charges of possessing indecent photos of minors.
The graduate in theoretical physics served as an educator prior to assuming the role of learning technology development officer at Edge Hill University.
The German national, Olaf Raetzel, now without a permanent residence, was incarcerated for five months.
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