Pervert who launched legal fight to stay anonymous offends again

A CONVICTED sex offender who fought for 18 months to keep his name out of the media has reoffended. Blackburn magistrates heard Rocky Dino Knight was named and shamed after a protracted battle with the Lancashire Telegraph’s sister paper Bolton News. He claimed that as a member of the travelling community he would be at risk if it became known he had been downloading and distributing child pornography. But in 2019 a judge ruled he could be named and also made Knight subject to a sexual harm prevention order. Knight, 39, of Colne Road, Burnley, pleaded guilty to breaching a sexual harm prevention order by accessing Snapchat on two different devices and breaching requirements of the sex offenders register by using names he had not notified to the police on snapchat. On Tuesday, he was sent in custody to Burnley Crown Court to be sentenced on February 12. Adam Boney, prosecuting, said the Crown viewed the defendant as a high risk sex offender. On Monday December 14, 2020, police carried out a compliance visit at his home and he produced a Nokia phone, an iPhone and a Samsung all of which had access to the internet and snapchat accounts. “These…
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