A CONVICTED sex offender repeatedly breached a sexual harm prevention order less than 24 hours after being released from prison, a court was told.

Rafal Jastrzebski went past two schools and a children's play area after going for a walk in Southampton and taking what a judge described as a circular route.

In March last year, Jastrzenski was jailed for two years for four offences of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.

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He was released on licence at the end of January and fitted with an electronic tag that enabled police to monitor his movements.

Under the terms of the ten-year order, he was banned from going within 50 metres of schools and children's play areas.

But police started receiving message alerts about Jastrzenski's close proximity to a school, Southampton Crown Court was told.

Edward Warren, prosecuting, said: "It was confirmed the children had been on their break and outside in the playground at the time the defendant passed by."

Mr Warren said Jastrzenski also went near another school and a children's play area before being arrested and recalled to prison.

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Jastrzebski, 35, of Languard Road, Southampton, admitted breaching the order.

Jamie Gammon, mitigating, said: "My instructions are that this was not a deliberate breach. He was heading to see friends and forgot he was the subject of the order."

Referring to the electronic tag he added: "Knowing the police knew where he was, it seems bizarre that he would walk straight to a school.

"He now knows he will immediately be found out if he does it again."

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Judge Christopher Parker KC told him: "You were made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order that prevented you from going within 50 metres of a school or play area.

"Within 24 hours of being released you went on a circular pedestrian route that took you near two schools and a playground.

"It seems plain to me that these were three deliberate breaches on the same day. Clearly there was a risk of some harm. It provided you with an opportunity to come into contact with children."

Jastrzebski was jailed for ten months for each of the breaches, but the three terms will run concurrently.

They will also run concurrently with the remainder of his original jail sentence, which means he will be released early next year.