Trans paedophile used woman’s name on dating app to flout court order
A transgender paedophile has been jailed after using a female name to violate a court order.
Luke Hardy, 24, was jailed for using aliases online, having repeatedly broken an order to prevent further offences.
The paedophile was first sentenced to a community order in 2022 for three counts of making indecent images of children.
These images, which were found on Hardy’s mobile phone, included eight of the most serious kind.
However, by erasing his phone’s internet history and deleting dating apps, the 24-year-old breached the order in 2023.
Hardy then breached the order again later that year by registering on a pornography website using the name “Lucy”.
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A transgender paedophile used a female name to violate a court order
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The sentencing hearing for Hardy breaching sexual harm prevention orders (SHPOs) was at Teesside Crown Court
It is understood that this constituted a breach because Hardy failed to inform police about the use of any aliases online.
The 24-year-old was jailed by Judge Richard Clews for eight months for breaching the SHPOs – as well as an extra month for activating part of his previous suspended sentences.
Clews said told the defendant: “It is appropriate to describe the breaches of the sexual harm prevention order as persistent and deliberate.”
He added the sentence had been made on the basis no harm was caused to anyone else by Hardy breaching the orders.
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