March 2009 Mum’s lodger was convicted paedophile A MOTHER of two was horrified to find her lodger was a paedophile. Christopher Hyde was banned from being in the same house as children after a sex attack on a nine-year-old boy in 2004. But when he began a homosexual relationship in Gateshead he moved in with the man’s family under a false name. Only when the mother of the children in the house, two girls aged two and three, found Hyde had given her a false name did his past come to light. Now Hyde, 23, has been jailed for four months for breaching a sexual offences order aimed at keeping him away from children. At Newcastle Crown Court, Judge Guy Whitburn told him: “When the mother found out, she was absolutely horrified that you were not who you said you were. “If you are a danger to anyone, you are a danger to young boys and young men rather than little girls. “But you must keep to the terms of the order.” Hyde, formerly of Sir Godfrey Thomson Court, Felling, Gateshead, was convicted of an indecent assault on the nine-year-old in December 2004. He was given a community rehabilitation order and told to sign the sex offenders register for five years. In April 2007 he was back in court for outraging public decency by having sex with his then girlfriend in view of children and the public in Saltwell Park, Gateshead. It then came to light he had been babysitting for a family in the area and police got a sexual offences prevention order. One condition was he must not enter or live in a house where any child under 16 was present. Between October 2005 and January this year, Hyde lived in a bail hostel but was kicked out after failing to make efforts to find his own accommodation. He was then required to tell police where he was living but he lied about staying at addresses in South Shields. He was really staying with his gay lover, who lived with a young family in Gateshead, with two daughters. The mother became suspicious and searched his room. She found documents proving he had lied about his identity and his past. Hyde pleaded guilty to failing to notify a change of address and breaching the sexual offences prevention order. Tom Moran, for Hyde, said: “He would just rather have lived with his boyfriend rather than there being any sinister side of getting in with the family to commit sex offences. “The risk he poses is to young boys.”