A NOTORIOUS child sex fiend has avoided jail for breaching an order designed to stop him committing more vile crimes.
Serial paedophile Robert John Liddle was given a probation order last week for flouting the terms of his Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).
The 72-year-old former lorry driver and gardener, from Lisnaskea in Co Fermanagh, was given a SOPO in 2010 after committing indecent assaults on girls as young as seven.
He has been on the sex offenders register since 1999 with court appearances dating back to the early 1980s.
Liddle was arrested on June 2 last year after someone spotted him standing near a jetty in Newtownbutler where children were swimming.