A JUDGE has altered the sexual offences prevention order on a man who tried to abduct an 11-year-old girl in a drunken spree of sex offending.

Nicholas Lafford exposed himself to a series of children and women as he drove around a residential area on a Sunday lunchtime.

But after hearing that the 29-year-old was working in his father’s nightclub, and wanted to take up jobs in a garage and shop, Judge Douglas Field altered the terms of the order.

Judge Field, sitting at Swindon Crown Court, also allowed him to have unsupervised contact with his nephews and nieces.

Lafford, now of Dollar Street, Cirencester, was jailed for 35 months in August 2009 after admitting attempted child abduction, sexual activity in the presence of a child and exposure.

Chris Smyth, defending, said: “Mr Lafford has been in employment at a nightclub that is the business of his father.

“He also has a number of other businesses. There are certain concerns about working in a nightclub.

“Mr Lafford would like to work at Abbey Way Service Station and Stratton Convenience Store in Cirencester.”

He said he started to work there but there were concerns he would be breaching the order if he found himself alone in the shop with a child who was a customer.

Mr Smyth said he was now living with his father and they were frequently visited by his nephews and nieces who are aged between six and 15.

He said there was no suggestion that he had ever posed a threat to children in the family as all the victims in his offending were strangers.

The judge changed the order to allow him to work in the shop and said he was only banned from staying at an address with a female child and who is not related to him.

Lafford had been driving his car around the Shaw area of Swindon in March 2009 when he pulled up alongside an 11-year-old girl and carried out a lewd act on himself.

She ran off to report what she had seen but he then exposed himself to two other women who were walking along the road Lafford then stopped his car close to two girls aged 10 and 11 and made crude comments to them while engaging in a sex act on himself.

The final matter took place in Whitefield Crescent shortly before 2pm when he pulled up close to an 11-year-old girl.

After asking the girl for directions to a road she hadn’t heard of he demanded ‘come into my car now’ on two occasions.

She ran off but a man out cutting his lawn heard the exchange and was so concerned he got into his car and followed Lafford and pointed him out to the police.

When an officer approached the car Lafford was clearly drunk. he was found to be almost four times the drink drive limit more than two hours later at 4pm.

He told police he had not slept for 36 hours after working at a nightclub then going to a party the previous night and had consumed a lot of drink and taken drugs.

As a result he said he could remember nothing of the lunchtime spate of offending.

As well as the jail term, he was banned from working with children and will have to register as a sex offender for life.