Mum left 'disgusted' after Tinder dates with Leeds paedophile who used a different name
He deliberately tried to hide his sordid past
A mum has spoken of the horror of discovering a man she had been dating was a recently-convicted paedophile.
Leeds’ Bradley Appleton changed his surname on his Tinder profile to Nuttall, preventing the woman being able to Google him.
Appleton was convicted last year of for storing hundreds of child-abuse images on his phone.
Escaping with a suspended sentence, he then moved to Scarborough and began to date the unsuspecting woman.
Appleton, 37, was jailed at Leeds Crown Court after admitting his actions put him in breach of that suspended sentence order.
A statement by the woman was read out by prosecutor Vincent Blake-Barnard.
She said: “It made me feel disgusted. It made me feel sick.
“I put my trust in this person and I now know that everything he said was a lie.
“After I found out the truth, I blocked him because I was so disgusted by him.”
Appleton, formerly of Middleton in Leeds but now of New Queen Street, Scarborough, was previously found to have spent more than two years collecting more than 750 images and videos of children being abused.
He was given a 21-month sentence, suspended for 24 months, in October last year.
He was given a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) for 10 years to allow him to be monitored, and put on the sex offender register.
Dating someone with children put him in breach of the SHPO because he failed to notify the authorities.
When he was arrested, a tablet computer that he possessed and had not registered was found, which amounted to a second breach.
Appleton admitted both breaches, along with possession of cannabis after officers found a small amount on him during his arrest.
Mitigating, Eleanor Durdy said he had largely complied with the suspended sentence order and admitted the breaches at the earliest opportunity.
She conceded he had pre-occupations with sex, and needed help, alongside his use of cannabis.
But Judge Christopher Batty told Appleton: “What you did was mislead her deliberately, using a name so that she could not get to know what you did in the past.
“I’m afraid it has to be custody.”
He jailed Appleton for 16 months. His SHPO continues, while his name will remain on the sex offender register.