A CONVICTED sex offender who formed a relationship with a single mum without telling her his true identity has been jailed.

It is the second time Andrew Dolman, 36, has lied about who he is to women with children.

The defendant, who has abused two teenage girls and an adult woman, left a Bournemouth mum "devastated" last year after meeting her via dating site Plenty of Fish using the name Andy Wood.

He was sentenced to 10 months in prison in September 2017 after admitting breaching a number of notification requirements of the sex offenders' register.

On Friday, Dolman, of Cecil Road in Boscombe, returned to Bournemouth Crown Court to be sentenced for similar offending.

The defendant, who admitted breaching his sexual offences prevention order and failing to comply with the notification requirements of the register, was in a relationship with the Dorset woman for around two and a half months.

He was once briefly left alone with her children while she went to the shops. Prosecutors accepted he did not form the relationship with any intention of abusing the children.

Stuart Ellacott, prosecuting, said: "The defendant is under multi-agency public protection arrangements as a high-risk sex offender."

Dolman's victim knew he had been in prison, but believed it was for "football-related violence", Mr Ellacott said.

The defendant has a slew of convictions relating to non-compliance with his order, the court heard. He has previously been convicted of indecently assaulting a young girl in Warwickshire in 2000 and having sex with a girl under 16, and detaining a child, in West Dorset in 2012.

Nick Robinson, mitigating, said Dolman's appearance in the Daily Echo would be "tantamount to torture" for the defendant.

"This was not a targeted attempt to gain access to a child," Mr Robinson said.

"He found a meaningful friendship and had somebody to talk to."

The court heard Dolman was himself sexually abused from a "very young age" and has been "isolated and segregated' by reason of his convictions.

"He did not ask to be sexually abused as a child, but he was, and he grew up to sexually abuse others," said Mr Robinson.

"He is doing the best he can to try and live life."

Press coverage of the case means the defendant will "continue to suffer very severely" the barrister said, adding: "It is probably the worst punishment."

Judge Peter Crabtree said Dolman has a "history of disobedience of orders".

"I note the probation officer's assessment that the likelihood of reoffending is high, and that the risk or serious harm is also high given your apparent inability or unwillingness to comply with restrictions placed on you. This makes you, in the probation officer's assessment, an unmanageable risk in the community," the judge said.

"You have repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to comply with notification requirements, and now your sexual offences prevention order, in circumstances where they are in place for very good reason - that is, to protect young females and female children."

Sentencing Dolman to 16 months in prison, the judge warned: "You must understand that compliance with these orders is not optional."