March 1999 Paedophile Gary Service wants to live in the Republic when he is freed from an Ulster jail THIS is the paedophile Irishman who used Liverpool soccer stars as cover for sick sex attacks on boy scouts – and he wants to be YOUR next door neighbour. For convicted child molester Gary Service used parole last week to go house-hunting in the west of Ireland. The sex beast travelled to Galway, Mayo and Clare in his search for a new home, so that he can avoid being registered on the UK sex offenders’ register. Service, 31, has been convicted in both the North and in Liverpool. And last night a former friend broke his silence to warn: “He is due out of prison for good later this year and he has told us that there is no way he is going to stay in Northern Ireland. “He boasted to me last week that he was going to move to the Republic when he is finally released and that he had been to the west of Ireland to view some properties. “He feels he could quietly fade into a rural background in the south. That’s why I decided to go public so that he cannot do that. “Once a paedophile, always a paedophile as far as I am concerned. The people of Mayo, Galway and Clare should know what this man looks like and what he has done in the past.” Service is the latest child sex pervert from the North to try to set up a new life in the Republic. Four have already set up home in the Cork area in recent months, and Gardai have been informed by their RUC counterparts every time a paedophile leaves their jurisdiction for the south. What attracts them is that there is no compulsory register that convicted paedophiles must sign in the Republic, although there is in Northern Ireland. Service has been jailed TWICE for his crimes against young boys. He was given a four-year sentence by a Belfast judge after a court heard how he video-taped himself carrying out a sex attack on one youngster. A Merseyside court heard how Service organised scout trips to Anfield, home of Liverpool Football Club between 1993 and 1997. During one such trip he happily posed for pictures with the unsuspecting Liverpool left-back Stig Inge Bjornebye. Just hours later he spiked one young boy’s soft drink with vodka before launching a terrifying attack. He doused his disorientated victim with water and then told him he had wet himself. Then he told the boy to strip out of his clothes before forcing him to sit on his knee and molesting him. Liverpool judge Ian Crompton told former shop manager Service: “The offences are both disgusting and serious. “There is no doubt that a custodial sentence is merited.” But the three-year sentence handed down by the court ran concurrently with an earlier four-year sentence handed down in Belfast. With good behaviour and remission, Service will be freed from Maghaberry prison in Co Antrim this December. “There is no way he’ll be signing on any register,” said one recently freed prisoner. “He is determined to find a hideaway in the South and spends all his time scouring the papers looking at property ads. “He’s already had his mates looking at houses in Limerick and Tramore and money does not appear to be a problem.” One Garda source told us: “We have our own problems with sex abuse but it now seems we are also importing a major problem from the North. “We are co-operating with the RUC but our hands are tied. “Obviously some of these people view here as an opportunity to re-offend. “It makes me angry as anything to think that these men feel they can come here to get away from their past. “You get the feeling that we are turning into a bit of a dumping ground.” His former friend told us: “It is outrageous that someone like him will be able to move to the Republic. “People there must be stopped from hurting other children.”