A FORMER Scout master currently serving five years for abusing Cub Scouts had an extra two years eight months added to his sentence yesterday.

Ian Beeby was told by a judge that he is a “dangerous” paedophile.

Judge Steven Everett said: “I am satisfied you are and remain at high risk of sexual offending.

“The fact you are 63 years old would not prevent you sexually offending with youngsters.”

Beeby, formerly of Edditch Grove, Bolton, was jailed in March last year at Carlisle Crown Court for sexually assaulting four cub scouts and downloading sick child porn images between 1984 - 1986.

He also has two previous convictions for indecently assaulting boys.

The two offences, for which he appeared for sentence today and which represented a course of conduct spanning two years, only came to light because of publicity over his jailing last year.

Beeby admitted indecently assaulting a boy when he was aged between 10 and 12 and gross indecency with him. He denied 11 other similar offences involving the boy which were ordered to lie on the file.

Geoffrey Lowe, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court that Beeby began grooming the boy when he was 10 after befriending him as he walked past his Bolton home on his way to and from school.

This friendship led to the boy going round to his home to watch films and television, as well as going for walks. Beeby watched the TV shows and films in his bedroom while lying under the covers and got the boy to do the same, saying it was cold.

He began touching the boy and this increased in seriousness over the two years and he told the victim, he cannot be identified for legal reasons, “it was what people did” and said it would be their secret.

“It came to a halt when the boy’s sister went with him on one occasion and was shocked when he simply got into the defendant’s bed and she told him that was wrong.”

They left and the boy never returned there, said Mr Lowe. He kept it to himself until learning about his sentencing last year in the Bolton News.

The victim read his own moving impact statement to the judge in which he told, “I have bottled it inside of him, what he did with me. I was about 10 at the time and I just thought it was what people did.

“He abused me two or three times a week for a two-year period.”

He said that he has been in a gay relationship for 10 years but had not told his partner until last year. “I had put it to the back of my mind,” said the man, who added that he has suffered from depression all his life.

“I still feel totally disgusted with what he did to me. It has affected my personality and coming to terms with my sexuality and I hope he regrets the damage he was inflicted on me,” he said, his voice wavering with emotion.

Colin Buckle, defending, said that Beeby had wanted to wipe the slate clean last year, but he did not mention this victim.

His father had been a GP and his mother a nurse and he came from a happy home. He had not been abused himself and his offending behaviour “is something that won’t go away. It is ingrained in him.”

Jailing Beeby, Judge Everett said that his “deviant sexual behaviour” with the boy only came to an end when his sister intervened.

“You have no concept at all as the affect of your behaviour on young boys. You have blighted his life and no doubt blighted others lives when you carried out these disgusting acts upon them.”

Judge Everett, who ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life, said that he wanted it noted that when he is freed a multi-disciplinary group should review his case and consider applying for a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

He ordered that the two year eight month sentence run consecutively to his current sentence.