A CONVICTED paedophile is behind bars awaiting sentence after telling lies to obtain voluntary work with a major West Yorkshire sporting charity.

Bradford pervert David Hemsley made repeat appearances for the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation, at Headingley Stadium in Leeds, in breach of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) banning him from any unsupervised contact with children.

It is understood he represented the charity as a "meeter and greeter" after telling it he had no previous convictions, but was rumbled after suspicious staff members didn't like the look of him and Googled his name.

Hemsley, 49, of Union House Lane, Queensbury, appeared from custody at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

He has now pleaded guilty to four offences, two in Bradford and two in Leeds, of breaching the SOPO imposed three years ago for child porn offences.

Hemsley admitted at Bradford Crown Court to illegally accessing Facebook, between August, 2012, and April, 2013, and searching the internet for child porn, between August and October, 2012.

The prosecution will ask for 11 offences of possession of indecent images of children to lie on the court file not to be proceeded with.

Hemsley pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court last week to breach of a SOPO, between April 29 and July 26, 2014, by undertaking voluntary work for the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation on ten occasions, which was likely to bring him into contact with children, and by going on Facebook.

The SOPO was imposed at Bradford Crown Court on September 14, 2011, after Hemsley struck up a cyber-sex relationship with a 15-year-old girl in the Philippines.

They met on an internet dating site and both posed naked in front of webcams. Hemsley was caught after Interpol contacted police in Bradford following complaints from the child's family.

Hemsley told police, who were monitoring him because of a previous sex offenders order, that he wanted to go to the Phillipines to go scuba diving but they were suspicious and imposed a travel ban on him.

They searched his home and found naked photos of the girl on his computer.

Hemsley admitted six charges of possession of indecent photos of the child.

He was sentenced to a three-year community order, with an internet sex offenders treatment programme, and was banned from working with children.

Yesterday, his barrister, Adam Walker, said Hemsley was "realistic" about the sentence he will receive.

The case was adjourned until October 13 for a report to be prepared by the probation service.

Remanding Hemsley back into custody, The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said: "The likelihood is that you will get a prison sentence but it is a matter for the judge at the time."