A CHILD sex pervert whose imminent release from prison sparked an outcry throughout Bolton has been kept behind bars to face further offences, the BEN can reveal today.

Mark Weaver - who has boasted to other prisoners that he will sexually abuse more children and kill any who resists - is being detained accused of writing letters to incite another person to indecently assault children.

Weaver, jailed in 1993 for indecently assaulting two boys from Farnworth, was due to be released from London's Belmarsh Prison last Friday.

Revelations in the BEN last month that the authorities were planning to release him on licence created an outcry from parents in the Farnworth and Walkden area where he once lived.

But the BEN has discovered that shortly before his release Weaver, aged 25, was re-arrested. The 33-year-old mother of his two victims, who feared his return to Farnworth, said today: "I am so relieved he is still behind bars. It's a weight off my shoulders.

"I was so frightened for my children knowing he could be free.

"He is a very sick and dangerous man and I don't think he will ever change. I don't think he should ever be released."

Weaver has a history of indecent assaults on children dating back to his school days.

In 1987 he indecently assaulted a five-year-old boy on a railway embankment and the following year he was accused of indecently assaulting a six-year-old boy.

He defied a two year probation order and committed a similar offence against a three-year-old boy in 1989.

In April 1993 he pleaded guilty to three offences of indecent assault on the two Farnworth boys, then aged six and 10, committed shortly after his release from a previous jail term.

A probation report has revealed that Weaver is "likely to commit further serious offences" and some experts fear he could be more dangerous now than when he was jailed four years ago.

Weaver, whose family still live in Farnworth, will appear before Woolwich Magistrates next Wednesday charged with inciting some other person to indecently assault an under age male; inciting some other person to indecently assault a child under the age of 12 and inciting a person to commit an act of gross indecency with a child under the age of 14.

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