April 2013 Convicted paedophile escapes jail despite having girl of four in house overnight A convicted paedophile who admitted allowing a girl of four to stay overnight in his house has escaped being sent back to prison. Simon Farr, 29, originally jailed for distributing child rape images, flouted the terms of his release by allowing the girl to stay at the property he shares with a kids nursery manager. Astonishingly magistrates let him off with a 12-month suspended sentence and ordered him to wear an electronic tag. The Sunday Mirror revealed last month that Farr was living with Lauren Cleaver, 27, boss of private JAM Nursery in Merton, South West London. She knew about her lover’s sick past but has not committed any crime. When the horrified parents of the four-year-old read our story they immediately called the police and he was arrested. Farr, banned from living in a house where there is a child under 18, admitted three counts of breaching the sex offenders’ register. He had been jailed for a year in 2009 for swapping child porn online. Child protection charity bosses said the soft sentence gave the wrong message to paedophiles. May 2009 JAIL FOR CHATROOM PERVERT A chatroom pervert who discussed his sexual fantasies while exchanging child porn with other men was jailed for a year. Simon Farr, 25, of Croydon spent two years building a library of 1,645 sick images of children as young as six. He was caught after discussing his sexual fantasies in an internet chatroom in January 2009. Police raided his Croydon home and charged him with 15 counts of distributing indecent images of children. Farr was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register