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A paedophile who was deported back to Ecuador over sex attacks on a girl sneaked back into Britain after changing his name and got a job with a company helping vulnerable teenagers.

Juan Guerra Landazuri, 44, was able to live in the UK under his new identity for nearly two years before he was discovered after a woman claimed he had sexually assaulted her.

He has now been jailed for 26 months for failing to disclose his previous conviction in his application for his care job and not notifying the police where he was living which he was required to do as a sex offender.

Suffolk police and crime commissioner Tim Passmore said he was "absolutely horrified" by the case and demanded tighter border controls to keep criminals out of Britain.

Landazuri was known as Juan Alejandro Guerra when he was jailed for four years at Kingston Crown Court in 2002 for two offences of indecent assault on a girl aged under 14.

He was also banned form working with children for life and ordered to notify the police of his address indefinitely under the Sexual Offences Act which pre-dated the sex offenders' register.

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His sentencing also banned him from returning to the UK and he was deported back to his home country of Ecuador on January 20, 2005, after serving his jail sentence.

But it emerged yesterday that he legally changed his name to Landazuri and was able to get a Spanish passport under his new identity as he had dual Spanish and Ecuadorian nationality.

Landazuri entered Britain illegally under his new passport in August 2013 as part of a Spanish work exchange programme and moved to Ipswich, Suffolk.

Ipswich Crown Court heard how he worked for 18 months as a support worker with a care company which provides supported living accommodation for vulnerable teenagers aged 15 to 19 and adults with learning difficulties.

Police only discovered his criminal background after an allegation of sexual assault on a woman in her 20s was made against him in May.

Landazuri was interviewed voluntarily in June and arrested on July 14 and charged with three counts of sexually assaulting a woman aged over 16 and a charge of common assault.

The sex assault and common assault charges were discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service before he entered pleas in September after a senior prosecutor reviewed the case and found there was 'no longer sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction'.

But Landazuri was also charged with failing to comply with notification requirements under the Sex Offenders' Act between January 2005 and July 2015, and fraud by failing to disclose his previous convictions between November 2013 and July 2015.

He admitted both offences when he appeared before Ipswich Crown Court.

He was jailed for 26 months and told he would be deported for a second time.

Prosecutor Christopher Kerr told the court that a section in the application for his care job asked about previous convictions, but Landazuri had left it blank.

He is the latest of a growing number of sex offenders, robbers, burglars and petty criminals to have committed crimes in Suffolk before the authorities were aware they were in the county.

Suffolk PCC Mr Passmore who has spoken out many times about foreign criminals being able to get into the country so easily, said: "I am absolutely horrified.

"It beggars belief that yet again we have a foreign national - this time with dual citizenship - with a serious criminal record of a predatory nature against young people has gained entry into the UK despite having a previous conviction and being deported from the country.

"What on earth are we doing?

"This should never happen.

"We now need, without delay, proper reform of border controls within the European Union so that those with such poisonous track records of criminal behaviour never gain access to our country.

"I think those responsible for the rules need to stop prevaricating and act to keep the people of Suffolk safe."

Anne-Marie Breach, a spokeswoman for Suffolk Constabulary, said: "At the end of May, Suffolk police received a report of a crime, with the suspect being Juan Jose Guerra Landazuri.

"During the course of this investigation it was discovered that Landazuri could potentially be Juan Alejandro Guerra, who was convicted and deported following conviction for sexual assault back in 2002.

"Suffolk officers contacted Metropolitan police for a photograph of Guerra.

"When this was received it appeared to be the same man.

"He was then arrested for failing to comply with his sex offenders' registration and fraud by false representation and further checks done to confirm Landazuri and 'Guerra' were the same man.

"A search was carried out at his home address and a current and valid Ecuadorian passport and identity card in his current name were found, along with a current and valid Spanish passport and identity card.

"It's thought he used the Spanish document to come back into the country around August 2013."

A spokeswoman for the Home Office said: "Foreign criminals have no place in the United Kingdom and we are using all the resources available to protect the British public.

"In the last five years, we have strengthened the UK's ability to request and obtain criminal records data from other countries about foreign nationals who are arrested in the UK.

"Since 2010, checks on foreign nationals going through the UK criminal justice system have increased by more than 1,500%.

"We are also providing leadership in Europe, and across the world, on efforts to improve the proactive sharing of information between countries about foreign offenders."