Revealed: child sex offender whose release from jail had tormented tragic Gaia Pope 

Gaia Pope was traumatised by the impending release from jail on child sex offences of a college friend against whom she had made a police complaint. Gaia, 19, had accused Connor Hayes of sexual abuse after they had stopped seeing each other two years ago, the offender’s mother said yesterday.  Police had dropped that investigation into Hayes, 24, but had prosecuted him successfully for persuading another girlfriend to take part in a sex video which was then uploaded onto the internet.