A sex offender, banned from using internet chat rooms, used library computers to post more than 2,000 instant messages on dating sites.

And when he was caught, pervert Christopher Robinson told police he did it because he was lonely.

Canterbury Crown Court heard how in June last year he went to Dover library and accessed dating websites on 93 occasions and posted 223 messages in chat rooms.

The following month he went on dating sites 634 times – and posted 963 instant messages.

And in August he surfed 525 dating sites before posting 777 instant messages in chat rooms – despite the court order banning him from sending any.

Robinson, of Folkestone Road, Dover, admitted breaching court orders imposed on him while living in Deal, but said he was lonely and wanted to meet someone.

Prosecutor James Ross told how the 36-year-old had been barred from messaging in chat rooms since 2009 when it was discovered he was using them to seek out youngsters.

Then in 2015, Robinson, who was then living in Guilford Road, Deal, received a six month suspended sentence after breaching the order to meet the mother of two teenage girls.

Now he has been given a six-month immediate jail term after admitting breaching the ban yet again. It was discovered when he went to Scotland to meet another woman he had met on the internet.

Because he is a registered sex offender he had to report to police in Scotland and let slip that he had started a new relationship.

Mr Ross added that Robinson had gone to Glasgow in November to register his new address.

“The police asked what had brought him to Scotland and he told them he was in a new relationship with a woman he had met online and had moved north to be with her.

“But officers thought he was cagey about how he was spending his time and he eventually admitted visiting the library to access dating sites.”

Officers later spoke with the “vulnerable” woman, who has mental health and alcohol problems, who said she was unaware of Robinson’s seedy past.

He later travelled south to meet with his probation officer and was arrested after leaving their offices.

Judge Heather Norton told him at an earlier hearing: “The history of your offending is a history which causes me great concern.

“In 2009 you received a police caution, something that is highly unlikely to happen today, for contacting children over the internet and seeking indecent images.”