A CHILD sex offender who moved to Swindon has been warned he is on his last chance after failing to do his unpaid work.

Daniel Kerwood, 31, who is on a community order for failing to comply with his registration conditions, said a bad back made it too hard from him to get to the appointments.

But a judge at Swindon Crown Court told him that the problem with the order was his attitude and said he was getting a 'last chance'.

Andrew Stone, prosecuting, said Kerwood was first put on a six-month suspended sentence in 2014 for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 16.

Soon after it was increased to nine months because he failed to notify the authorities of where he lived, as is required under sex offender registration.

Then last year Kerwood, of Alpine Close, Shaw, was back before a judge for again failing to comply with the requirements by having contact with a child.

Mr Stone said the defendant, then living in the Andover area, was told as part of the order he must not have contact with a child for more than 12 hours at a time.

"Mr Kerwood tells me he accepts misunderstanding, he thought it was being alone with a child," he said.

After admitting the breach he was put on a 26-month community order with supervision from probation.

But he first breached the order in September last year, then again shortly before Christmas when 60 hours of unpaid work was added to it.

Mr Stone said he failed to turn up for the work on December 28, February 23 and 24 and the first three days in March.

He said the defendant had told him that he lives an hour's walk from the unpaid work centre and he has sciatica.

"He says the distance is beyond him with his back in that condition," adding that Kerwood couldn't afford public transport.

"He tells me he has applied for universal credit. He applied in January but the checking is still going on."

Passing sentence Judge Tim Mousley QC said: "You have breached this order yet again.

"As I have said the underlying reason for you not doing what you were ordered to do was because your attitude towards it.

"It is suggested in the pre-sentence report that your compliance with this order has been nothing but problematic. That is putting it mildly.

"You are now on your last chance, do you understand that. I am going to add 40 hours of unpaid work. That makes a total, less any you have done, of 100 hours.

"That is the position you find yourself in. You must do it. There are no more excuses. If you come back before the court, as I have said, you have run out of chances."