August 1996 A judge branded this man one of Britain’s most evil child sex perverts …so why does he have a house full of children? An evil paedophile jailed for 11 years for his part in Britain’s largest child sex ring is inviting children into his home…just one month after being released from prison. Perverted Alan Delaney – dubbed the ring’s “lieutenant”” by police – was freed from prison last month after serving just half his sentence. The Sunday Mirror tracked him down after being contacted by a mother whose sons were victims of the ring. Our investigators witnessed children, aged between 11 and 17, making regular visits to balding Delaney’s white-washed home in Portland, Dorset, last week. On one occasion a girl aged about 14 was sitting on the doorstep with a teenage boy, playing with a box of condoms, before being invited in. Others played with his pet chihuahua dog before walking inside and disappearing behind his net curtains for up to five hours. One teenage boy joined him for a 20-minute walk along the clifftop of the famous Portland Bill landmark. None of the children had to knock on the unlocked front door – they just walked straight in. The £50,000 three-bed semi is just a stone’s throw from the busy community centre used every Wednesday night by Scouts and Guides. Delaney, 56, was jailed in 1989 after a year-long police investigation uncovered a paedophile ring stretching across the country. It was hailed as the fall of Britain’s largest child sex network, which had seen more than 140 children – some as young as nine – abused. Delaney, then living in Hounslow, Middlesex, and three accomplices were jailed for a total of 34 years. Delaney was convicted of conspiracy to commit buggery, indecent assault, taking indecent photographs and attempted buggery. At his Old Bailey trial, the jury heard that bespectacled Delaney posed as a cleaning company boss who would give odd car-cleaning jobs to youngsters for pocket money. He also volunteered to train children at a local junior football club. But his image as a kindly uncle hid his true motives. Children welcomed into his close-knit group were slowly turned to prostitution and then passed around other perverts in the group. The boys were snared by offers of money, drugs, gifts and holidays. But once Delaney and his evil friends had subjected them to a sickening catalogue of sexual abuse they were dumped on to the streets of London. The ring was finally smashed after a telephone engineer fitting a phone in Delaney’s bedroom spotted a photograph album stashed behind a cabinet which contained hundreds of incriminating pictures. As Delaney and his co-conspirators were led to their cells Judge Henry Pownall, QC, told them they had carried out “an unspeakable wholesale corruption of young boys”. Last night the mother who helped us track Delaney down said: “I knew Delaney for four years. “Once I welcomed him into my home with open arms as a friend who played football with my sons. “But behind his mask of civility was a monster intent on corrupting my young ones.”When I discovered he had been released, I cried. “I wept because I know him and I am frightened of him and I know he will be a danger to children until his final breath. I fear for the mites. It doesn’t take much of a leap of the imagination to know that these children are in jeopardy. “Delaney’s record speaks for itself. He’s an evil man who has a penchant for children. My campaign is for them. It is too late for my family. But others need to know who he is and where he is so they can choose whether to allow their children near him. I would beg them to think hard.”” The woman, who lives in West London but cannot be named for legal reasons, added: “I feel the justice system has let the nation down by releasing him so early. “I believe people have a right to know when a convicted pervert moves into their community. “This is what I am doing, and Delaney was one of the most evil paedophiles the nation had ever seen. “In prison, his door would be locked but out on the streets his front door is always open to youngsters.”