A PERVERT who abused a string of young girls after plying them with drink and cigarettes is back behind bars.

Former Rodbourne limousine driver Steven Lach was jailed for seven years in 2007 and also put on a sexual offences prevention order, restricting his liberty on his release.

But in July last year the 50-year-old approached two girls under 16 in Melksham, where he was living in a hostel after leaving prison on early release.

When Lach, of no fixed address, appeared at Swindon Crown Court he pleaded guilty to one charge of breaching the terms of a sexual offences prevention order He is back in custody and could be ordered to serve the remainder of the original sentence, which also included a three-year extended licence.

The court was told that he is also likely to receive another jail term for the new offences.

Stephen Jeary, defending, said his client had been recalled on the early release licence of the previous sentence on July 15 last year.

He said “The inevitable sentence in one of imprisonment. There is nothing to advance by way of mitigation. He is 50 and pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.”

Judge Douglas Field said he needed a pre-sentence report to learn more about the defendant and remanded him in custody until Friday, May 13.

Lach was jailed in January 2007 after admitting systematically abusing eight girls, the youngest being 12.

He bought drink and cigarettes for youngsters to befriend them, as well as telling them he ran a photography studio.

Once he had gained their trust he took them to his home in Bruce Street and drove them into the country where he took photographs of them for his own sexual gratification.

On some occasions he gave them money, carried out sex acts in front of them and simulated sex with them in the pictures. When the police became involved he persuaded one of the girls he had abused to write a letter purporting to be from another victim with her fingerprints on it.

After Lach met the teenagers he said he was a photographer called Glen but used the façade to take lewd pictures of them.

He also told one of the youngsters he liked sex with girls, not women, as a woman had once broken his heart.

The court was told he repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, claiming the girls had cooked up the whole thing to frame him.

Lach, who gave the court an address of St Alban’s Close, Rodbourne, eventually pleaded guilty to 18 sex crimes and one charge of perverting the course of justice.

He admitted five counts of indecent assault, one of sexual assault, two of indecency with a child, six charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two counts of engaging in a sex act in the presence of a child and two of exposure. A further four counts of exposure and one of inciting a child to commit sex acts involving four more young girls will lie on file after he pleaded not guilty to them.