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He once tried to rape a boy and a girl

A paedophile who once tried to rape a boy and girl was caught worming his way into a child's home.

Jordan Duckworth was locked up for 30 months for two attempted rapes when he was aged just 17 in January 2011.

He has been on the Sex Offenders Register and subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) ever since.

The order prevented Duckworth from contacting any child under 16 without the written approval of social services.

But the pervert kept flouting the ban and after being caught with a 13-year-old boy this year he tried to blame the child's mum.

Liverpool Crown Court heard Duckworth, 27, of Needham Road, Kensington, first breached the order on February 4, 2017.

Michael Stephenson, prosecuting, said: "His partner and her child had visited him and they had all three shared a double bed."

Duckworth admitted the breach on February 6, 2017 when he was sentenced to eight weeks in jail, suspended for 12 months.

However, just two days later he met with another woman and headed to her home, where her then nine-year-old son lived.

Mr Stephenson said it was revealed Duckworth "dropped in" on the woman "most days" and he was jailed for 12 weeks for the breach.

Social services attended the same woman's home in Wavertree on February 15 this year for a "risk assessment" and "welfare check".

She was there with her now 13-year-old son, but so was Duckworth, who "lied initially about who he was".

Police were informed and arrested Duckworth at his home, when he became "upset" and said: "I've breached my SOPO."

He was so distressed officers had to abandon an interview, but he admitted the breach before magistrates on February 19.

Desmond Lennon, defending, told the court it had been four years since his client's last breach.

He said Duckworth accepted going to the woman's home "on a number of occasions, but on each occasion this youngster wasn't there".

Mr Lennon said Duckworth didn't expect the boy to be there on February 15 and there was no suggestion the child was in fear or at risk of harm.

The lawyer said: "He gave a false name, panicked and ran off, but he clearly wasn't going to go very far.

"He was traced and detained by police. The first thing he said was 'I've breached the order and I'm going to go to prison."

Mr Lennon said Duckworth accepted it was inevitable he would now be jailed, as his client cried on a video link from HMP Altcourse.

He said: "The defendant is sorry and ashamed for what has happened - he hadn't given any real thought to the seriousness of the position he was putting himself in.

"He now sadly recognises the seriousness of it having been in custody for the past four weeks.

"He's found prison very, very difficult. It's been a completely overwhelming experience for him."

Mr Lennon said Duckworth was "very distressed" and showed "troubling behaviour" when interviewed, when it dawned on him he would be jailed again.

He said his client had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, had struggled with self-harm and attempted suicide in 2011.

Mr Lennon said Duckworth had also undergone the "trauma" of seeing his mum and grandad die in 2014 and in 2019, when working on a railway, he saw a colleague killed, which was "a dreadful experience for him".

Duckworth sobbed as the judge, Recorder Ciaran Rankin, passed sentence.

He told Duckworth: "You were in that house in the company of a young boy, a boy you had shown some interest in in the past.

"You actually lied about your identity and attempted to flee the scene, no doubt because you knew just how much trouble you had placed yourself in."

Recorder Rankin said Duckworth pleaded guilty at the first opportunity, but initially took "limited responsibility" for his behaviour.

He said: "In fact you continue to blame and divert the blame onto the mother of the child, of this 13-year-old boy.

"You said you were invited to that address and it was only when you got there you discovered the young boy was there, expecting him to be at school.

"If that is correct Mr Duckworth, you should have immediately turned on your heels and left the address, putting some distance between yourself and the boy. You did not do that."