October 2009
Car boot paedophile uses cuddly toys as bait
Child sex pervert Trevor Cole displays toys to lure children
IT is a photo that will send a chill down the spine of every parent.
Child sex monster Trevor Cole, 52, lays out cuddly toys to lure kids to his car boot sale stall.
The convicted paedophile – caged for five years for molesting girls – is on the sex offenders register.
His offences consisted of 10 indecent assaults on two young girls.
But we watched as he carefully set up his stall on a site next to a nursery school.
Then he put a case full of rag dolls and teddy bears at the front to tempt unsuspecting parents and children.
At one point, a mum approached and the balding pervert emerged to get closer.
He picked out a toy to hand to a toddler in his pram while laughing with an older boy, aged about eight, as their mum watched.
Then he smilingly gave the bigger lad a gift, refusing to take any money, before chatting to him for about 15 minutes.
The pervert who was jailed in 1997, runs his stall in Spalding, Lincs, despite a history of flouting his release terms, which ban him getting near kids.
Cole, formerly of Peterborough, was sent back to prison in 2000 after becoming involved with a children s majorette troupe.
Cole who was out on parole from his five-year sentence in 2000 after being released half way through his sentence was arrested and returned to jail after being spotted at the majorette competition in Haverhill, Suffolk.
The breach of his parole only then came to light thanks to a member of the public, who knew of Cole s background, and warned parents, who reported the matter to the police.
He used to run a similar troupe in Peterborough and had been involved in the training of some of the majorettes for a few in the summer of 2000.
A source said: “He must know a case of cuddly toys will tempt children.
“Yet parents have no idea he’s a child molester. His eyes light up when children come to the stall. It’s unbelievable he’s allowed to get away with it.”
