“MY family are to spend their Christmas looking over their shoulder and are virtually prisoners in their own home not knowing if this individual will strike again.”

They are the words of a Swindon dad after he was told the sex attacker who broke into his family home and sexually abused his teenage daughter and wife while they slept will be released back into the community this week.

Not only does he have to suffer the mental torture of knowing that Jason Moulding, 32, will soon be walking the streets, but his fears are compounded by the fact that he is away working for the MoD in Afghanistan and won’t be home for Christmas to watch over his family.

The dad, who cannot be named as his wife and child have legal anonymity, contacted the Adver from Helmand, Afghanistan, to make the public aware that Moulding, of Meadowcroft, Upper Stratton, will soon be freed.

He said: “Christmas has never been the same since he devastated my family and now I am spending this Christmas in Afghanistan knowing he is walking free.”

On December 21, 2008, Moulding crept into the family home in Stratton in the early hours of the morning and molested the 14 year-old girl and her mother as they slept.

The teenage victim woke to the terrifying sensation that someone was in her room. She saw that Moulding was leaning over her bed and sexually assaulted her.

When the girl screamed, Moulding clamped his hand over her face and pushed her head onto the pillow before running from her room.

Her father, who had also been asleep, heard the girl’s cries and chased Moulding from the house.

Moulding was jailed in July 2009 at Swindon Crown Court after admitting two counts of sexual assault, and trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.

In recognition of the danger he posed, the 32-year-old was also given a five-year “extended licence” period, during which he could be closely monitored and recalled to prison if he put a foot wrong after his release.

But in July this year, Moulding had his sentence cut by the Court of Appeal after judges felt his original sentence of five years imprisonment was too harsh.

Moulding claimed to have “blacked out” before committing his crimes, due to excessive drink, but he also told a psychiatrist that a voice in his head had told him to attack his victims.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said they could not comment on individual cases, including when a prisoner is set for release.

But a Prison Service spokesman said: “We do not comment on individual prisoners. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 provides for the release of all prisoners at the halfway point of their sentence. If an offender is given a determinate sentence from the courts they are automatically released at the half way point and then subject to strict supervision in the community for the remainder of their sentence.

“All such offenders have to adhere to a set of strict conditions. They are subject to recall to custody if they breach their conditions or their behaviour indicates that it is no longer safe to allow them to remain in the community.

“Since 2001 the Probation Service has had in place a victim contact scheme for those victims of offenders convicted of violent or sexual offences who are sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months or more which enables them to have a say in the risk management plan and inform them of the relevant processes.”

The letter from the war zone

“I am the father of the daughter and the husband of the mother who this pervert assaulted almost two years to the day. I’m unsure if you are aware but he is to be released back into the Swindon community this week after his successful appeal for which the judge believed his original sentence too severe!

Christmas has never been the same since he devastated my family two years ago and now I am spending this Christmas in Afghanistan knowing he is walking free. My family are to spend their Christmas looking over their shoulder and are virtually prisoners in their own home not knowing if this individual will strike again.

Despite restrictions being placed on him, I still fear for my family’s safety as he is so unpredictable. I am not telling you what you should print in your paper, but I do believe the public of Swindon has a right too know.”