A PAEDOPHILE jailed for obscene behaviour on a North Yorkshire beach and other sexual crimes harassed a police officer from behind bars.

Karl William Martin Fox, 52, sent the detective letters from HMP Hull where he was serving a 28-month sentence imposed at York Crown Court. It was the latest in a series of jail terms he had been given for sexual offences.

Judge Deborah Sherwin was so concerned about what he may do following his release, she ordered him to wear an electronic tag enabling the authorities to know his location permanently and to undertake lie tests whenever police order him to do so.

He had previously told officers he would continue to break the law “as long as I can walk”.

The judge did not know that for months before and after he received the sentence, Fox was sending letters to the North Yorkshire detective, including from when he was in jail.

York magistrates heard that the threats he made in the letters increased in seriousness as the harassment progressed.

Fox, formerly of Burton Stone Lane, Clifton and now of Cleckheaton, pleaded guilty to harassing the police officer. York magistrates banned him from contacting the police officer directly or indirectly by any means until November 2027 and made him subject to a 10-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.

He is already banned for life from contacting the Samaritans charity after he was convicted of sending it an eight-page account of sadistic sexual abuse and torture of a young man and a bloodstained letter with razor blades.

York Crown Court heard in 2012 that for two years he had been sending the Samaritans letters that they found so concerning they asked him to stop. He then sent the sexual abuse account and the letter with the razor blades.

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In February this year, Fox was jailed after he pleaded guilty to 15 breaches of a sexual harm prevention order aimed at protecting the public from him by curbing his behaviour, and one offence each of possessing indecent images of children, possessing prohibited images of children and possessing pseudo images of children.

Judge Sherwin said Fox: “You are someone who is likely to continue offending in this way as long as you possibly can.”

She heard how although he was banned from all beaches, promenades and contact with other children following earlier sexual offences, he had filmed himself exposed and daubed in faeces or wearing a nappy on North Yorkshire beaches.

He had then put the videos on a phone which had been sold at a car boot sale and bought by a 14-year-old boy.

His barrister Matthew Stewart said Fox had a personality disorder and post traumatic stress disorder dating back to an earlier prison sentence.