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High Risk Child Sex Offender Jailed for Persistent Breach of Court Order

STOCKTON, UK, AUG 5 – Zoe Spooks Hardy repeatedly breached Sexual Harm Prevention Orders by using multiple unreported online aliases and deleting internet history, resulting in an eight-month jail sentence.

  • Last month, Judge Richard Clews jailed Zoe Spooks Hardy, high risk registered sex offender, for eight months plus an extra month for breaching SHPOs at Teesside Crown Court.
  • Following his 2022 sentencing, Hardy received a five-year SHPO after being sentenced for three counts of making indecent images of children, including eight of the most serious kind.
  • In 2023, Hardy breached his SHPO by deleting internet history and erasing dating apps, then registered on a pornography site as Lucy without notifying police.
  • During sentencing, Judge Richard Clews noted no harm was caused to anyone else by Hardy's breaches, describing them as persistent and deliberate.
  • Amid identity struggles, Hardy told police she sometimes felt like Lucy, and in July officers found her using the name Zoe on a dating app, email, and mobile game in Yarm Lane, Stockton.
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‘High risk’ sex offender jailed for breaching orders

Appearing in court as Zoe Hardy, but charged as Luke Hardy, the 24-year-old used aliases online without telling police.

·London, United Kingdom
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Evening Standard broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
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