A killer and double-rapist, who had sexual relationships with unsuspecting women protestors at the Occupy London camps, was jailed for six months on Friday for using an alias and given a lifetime ban from similar demos.
Jobless Leeds-born Stuart Durkin, 50, (pic.top) received six years in Sweden for killing his wife, 12 years for the bedsit rape of a virgin and thirteen years for the rape and attempted murder of a 30 year-old tourist in Rome, who he beat with a rock when she resisted.
He was repatriated to the UK on April 14, 2003, released on June 1, 2007 and given a council flat in Derry House, Church Street Estate, St. John's Wood, where he has remained on housing benefit.
"You are someone who has a history of violent offences, including sexual offences, and you are at the highest-risk end of offences involving sexual matters and violence," Old Bailey Recorder Nigel Peters QC told Durkin.
"You were passing yourself off as someone known as 'Troy' at the Finsbury Square camp and were using that when texting and chatting-up other people."
As a dangerous sex offender Durkin must keep police informed of his address and is subject to spot-checks by the Met's Jigsaw Team.
He was given a police escort to collect his belongings from his tent (pic.mid. and bottom) after he was charged and bailed on the condition he does not visit the camp.
He pleaded guilty that being a relevant offender under the Sexual Offences Act, failed to comply with a notification requirement, namely tell police he was using the name 'Troy' between October 12 and November 14, last year.
"Mr. Durkin was involved in the community activity with the London Stock Exchange protest camp at St. Paul's Cathedral and had a tent pitched at the Finsbury Square camp, which he used as a base," said prosecutor Mr. Marcus Rickard.
"He had been attending at these locations and there was an occasion he was arrested for assault and there was a comment made by Mr. Durkin that he had been staying at the camp for three weeks.
"That was looked into further and as a result there were further investigations and the phone records of Mr. Durkin were looked into," added the prosecutor.
"The phone that was seized indicated there was the use of two names, 'Stoo' and 'Troy'.
"Troy is a name this defendant was using to befriend females at the protest camp and there were at least twenty-four text messages over that period to females predominantly using the name Troy.
"Troy is a pseudonym he uses to target women," added Mr. Rickard. "The pre-sentence report makes much of the manipulative character of this defendant."
Detective Constable Richard Butcher said: "He has informed us in interview that he has formed sexual relationships with women he does not want the police to notify. Mr. Durkin has made sexual relationships with women at the camp."
Durkin had been sharing his tent with one particular woman in Finsbury Square, but she left for a similar demo in the west country before his arrest.
Durkin has been in custody since April 24, when he was arrested by police at his flat for not obeying on two occasions his conditions of bail, which included an electronically tagged residence and night time curfew requirement.
He refused to answer his front door to police, who eventually smashed it open. "Inside Mr. Durkin was on a sofa with his head in his hands," explained Mr. Rickard.
Durkin received two months' concurrent for breaching his bail conditions.
A similar charge that he deliberately failed to inform police he set up residence at the Finsbury Square camp was dropped.
After his arrest at St. Paul's for assaulting a tramp on November 13 Durkin texted a friend from Bishopsgate Police Station the message: 'In the hands of the beast.'
Durkin's lawyer Mr. Stephen McCabe said: "Many people at these camps use false names and street names.
"He was not aware of the name condition of the order, but ignorance of the law is no defence.
"The name is used in the context of a demo camp so is not as serious," added the lawyer. "He has brought this on himself. He knows that.
"He says he has suffered an awful lot of stress during these proceedings and has had trouble with the neighbours since his name was published in the Evening Standard in November.
"He has been suffering depression and feels hemmed-in and thought to go out and join the camp was no problem.
"There was no sinister intent. This was a casual camp, with people coming and going."
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