A SEX offender who set up dozens of fake dating profiles to lure paedophiles to a woman’s home has been jailed for eight years.

Stuart Callum Westwood, 46, posed as the woman on Plenty of Fish making up sickening sexual fantasies involving the mother and her child.

The now sacked BAE worker also told co-workers she was into swinging and encouraged them to contact her for sex, Preston Crown Court heard.

Judge Robert Altham, sentencing, said Westwood, of Andover Street, Barrow, was “a dangerous offender with a febrile, sexual, perverted imagination.”

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He also said he feared for Westwood’s current partner, who says she is standing by her man - despite having children of her own.

Between September 2017 and October 2018, the shipyard worker used pictures of the woman in her wedding dress and family photos from Disneyland to send men to her door at all hours of the day and night.

At least 10 people turned up at her house believing they had been invited to engage in sex acts with the woman and her young child,

In a victim statement the woman said she was an emotional wreck, adding: “I feel like my life isn’t my own. I feel like I am being watched.”

She installed CCTV and became obsessive about checking it and had to get her parents to stay with her for her safety.

Paul Evans, prosecuting, said: “It is difficult to conceive of a scenario that could have been more troubling for a mother living generally alone with her small child, than the prospect of sex offenders literally knocking on her door.”

One man was seen performing a sex act as he approached the front door at 7am.

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Another became angry and abusive when the woman’s father tried to send him away.

She said: “I want the world to know none of the online profiles were me, none of the disgusting words were mine.”

She added: “Every part of my life fell apart; my work, social life and my home life. I no longer post events about my life. I feel socially isolated, afraid to go out in public and afraid to interact online.”

Judge Altham said: “The effort and thought that has gone into this course of harassment is chilling.”

Westwood was only stopped when one man was so disturbed by his twisted propositions he handed his Plenty of Fish profile over to the police for them to reel him in.

Westwood was arrested at his house coming out of the bathroom with a mobile phone described by the prosecution as “a smoking gun”.

As officers burst through the door he was in the process of sending the woman’s postcode to an undercover officer, believing he was setting up another paedophile.

He denied he was the woman’s stalker despite having the evidence in his hand and in a pre-sentence report, maintained his innocence - despite being found guilty by a jury.

In 2013 he was jailed for possessing extreme pornography and indecent images and publishing sick fantasies about a former partner,l.

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He was suspended after he was arrested and has since been sacked from the shipyard.

Judge Altham said: “This is a man with little idea about the border between fantasy and reality.” He jailed Westwood for eight years with a two year extended licence and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Det Insp Ian Harwood,of Cumbria Police, said: “Stuart Westwood acted alone in committing these calculated and despicable crimes – and the woman whose profile he used had nothing to do with this and was the innocent victim.

“The sentence should send a stark message: behaviour such as this can have far-reaching consequences and we will seek to prosecute those involved.

“This campaign of behaviour left this woman no longer feeling safe. She became afraid to be seen in public and worried anyone who engaged with her might be her stalker. Westwood now has a long time to reflect on this.”