Co Down paedophile barred from leaving UK for 18 months

A convicted sex offender has been handed the first ever Foreign Travel Order in Northern Ireland.

The order handed down to the 65-year-old “incurable” sex offender Ian Patrick Magill by District Judge Mark Hamill at Newtownards Magistrates Court yesterday bars the paedophile from leaving the UK for the next 18 months.

Magill, from Ballyhornan Road, Downpatrick, has been involved in child porn for more than 20 years and was once described by a judge as “incurable” in his deviant attitudes toward young girls.

The application was based on a case in 1991 when Magill was convicted of taking indecent images of children but since then, he has amassed a string of convictions for similar offences including in 1995 when he was jailed for importing photographs of children being abused from Amsterdam.

He has been repeatedly before the courts for offences of downloading images and breaching his lifelong Sexual Offences Prevention Order, designed to protect potential victims.

PA