Sex offender, 55, dressed up as schoolgirl and spoke to kids outside a school

A judge has banned a middle-aged sex offender from wearing a girl's school uniform after he asked youngsters outside a school if they 'liked his tie'.

Mark Nicholson, 55, tried to lure three young girls aged between 10 and 15 into conversation outside Blessed Trinity College in Burnley, Lancashire last November, a court heard.

The creep was arrested the next day at his home and police officers found the school uniform in his bedroom. During a police interview he said he wears it "for comfort".

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The judge banned Nicholson, who has has 22 convictions for 60 offences, from wearing items of clothing relating to a girl’s school uniform and ordered him to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely.

He was jailed for 18 months for child sex offences in 2019 and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.

But he has now been jailed for another 16 months, after he breached his sexual harm prevention order twice.

Kathryn Johnson, prosecuting, told the court: “The police received a call from the safeguarding lead at Blessed Trinity to say that three female children from the school, aged between 10 and 15, had seen a male sat outside on Queen Victoria Road dressed in a school uniform that matched theirs.

“He was wearing a white shirt, a tie, blazer, and a skirt, and had tried to engage in conversation with the girls, saying ‘Do you like my tie?’.

“He was arrested the following day at his home address and the school uniform was recovered by officers from his bedroom.

“The defendant was interviewed the same day and told police he didn’t speak to the girls but accepted that he had been wearing the uniform, saying that he wears it for comfort."

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And Preston Crown Court was also told that in May this year, he met two runaways teenage boys who had been reported missing from their care home.

He took them back to his house where they smoked cigarettes and he gave them a cup of cider.

Kathryn Johnson, prosecuting, added: "When the children returned, they said they had boarded a hospital shuttle bus and had gone from Blackburn to Burnley.

“They had met the defendant and asked if they could go back to his home, and he took them. While there they smoked cigarettes, and the defendant gave them a cup of cider.

“They stayed around an hour and then left and returned to Blackburn.”

Defending Nicholson, Anna Chestnutt said his behaviour 'had no place' and he would 'not be repeating it'.

Ms Chestnutt said her client encountered the boys on a bus and it was them who spoke to him first.

She said: “Nothing sexual took place in the hour they spent at his home address.”

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