Pervert pensioner told to attend court or face arrest
'Delusional' Stephen Hutchinson was due to be sentenced in Ballymena Magistrates Court today
A judge warned today he was issuing an arrest warrant for a convicted sex offender if he fails to appear in court.
'Delusional' Stephen Ford Hutchinson was due to be sentenced in Ballymena Magistrates Court today after the 70-year-old admitted breaching his Sexual Offences Prevention Order.
Defence counsel Nadine Knight admitted however that Hutchinson had not attended amid claims that he is 'unwell.'
'He contacted the solicitor to say that he is unwell and had been with the GP on Tuesday with a potential diagnosis of vertigo,' she told District Judge Nicole Broderick, adding that despite being asked for a letter to that effect, Hutchinson had not provided anything.
Stephen Ford Hutchinson when he was caught by a paedophile hunter group
The pensioner, from the Curran Road in Larne, had been due to be sentenced over a SOPO breach in that he had admitted he had accessed social media and communicated with another person on 7 April this year.
The SOPO, an order designed to protect the public, was put in place last year after Hutchinson was convicted of of attempting to sexually communicate with a child between 18 July and 1 August 2022.
The pensioner, who had also entered guilty plea to three charges of having extreme pornography, had been ensnared by a paedophile hunter group whose decoy had been posing as a 14-year-old girl.
During the contest, Hutchinson's testimony was at times bizarre as he claimed that he was a 'digital soldier' helping to combat against 'dark forces' involved in 'molesting children and sexualising children, indoctrinating them in schools and cannibalism.'
'I believe it involves Satanic ritual child abuse and world wide trafficking of children,' the 70-year-old told the court, claiming that at the time of the offending he had been 'tracking what was purported to be the greatest military intelligence operation in the history of the planet.'
'It was an online thing, I'm not a member of it, just tracking that's all and we had been led to believe that there was an emergency alert system imminent whereby a world wide alert had been put out and the military would come in and take over.
Stephen Ford Hutchinson
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'There was something else in that military intelligence operation called White Spall, all through covid and in that particular week the Japanese PM had been shot and it was believed, by my research, that it was faked.
'We had Star Trek in the sky, we had Mount Vesuvius erupting and the Vatican went on fire so I was in a state where I thought this is it, the emergency alert was imminent,' claimed Hutchinson, describing it as 'a very strange mental place to be.'
When he sentenced the pensioner to five months, suspended for three years, Judge Broderick said it was clear from Hutchinson's 'presentation at court and from what he has told probation that he is living in a different world - he seems to be delusional.'
In court today Judge Broderick adjourned the case for a week but warned that if Hutchinson failed to attend again with no good reason, 'I'm likely to issue a warrant.'
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