Paedophile Darrel Harington to spend an extra 18 months in jail after guilty finding

Notorious child sex offender Darrel George Harington has received a “modest increase” in his jail term after a jury found him guilty of molesting another two boys.

Convicted sex offender Darrel George Harington leaving the Supreme Court in Hobart on a previous occasion.

A BRAZEN Hobart paedophile already in jail for molesting nine young boys will only be locked up for an extra 18 months after a jury found him guilty of even more child sex charges.

Darrel George Harington received a “modest increase” in his jail term on Wednesday in Tasmania’s Supreme Court, meaning he will now be 72 years old when he’s eligible for parole in March 2024.

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Harington, who hid in plain sight behind his job as a science teacher for decades, last month fought fresh historical allegations including that he’d held down a 12 or 13-year-old boy while masturbating naked at his Little Swanport farm during the 1970s, and the repeated abuse of a teen boy in the 1990s.

But despite Harington taking the rare and bold move of giving evidence in his trial, a jury took under two hours in returning a guilty verdict to two counts of indecent assault and one count of maintaining a sexual relationship with a young person.

On Wednesday while sentencing, Justice Michael Brett said Harington’s offences against the boy at Little Swanport – after the paedophile suggested a “masturbation game” – were “degrading and particularly invasive”.

He noted the child was isolated on his farm and had “no means of escape or contacting his mother”, and now as an adult man suffers recurring nightmares of being held down. Justice Brett said Harington’s offending between June 1998 to February 2000 was done with the “consent” of the teen boy, although that consent wasn’t legal because the victim was aged 14 to 15.

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He said sexual contact occurred each time Harington, then aged 46 to 48, saw the boy.

Justice Brett noted the man, now in his 30s, suffered “profound” ongoing emotional and psychological consequences.

Harington has been in jail since September 2015 after confessing to historical child sex offending over 35 years against boys aged 12 to 15.

At that time, he was sentenced to a maximum 12 years’ jail on appeal, with a non-parole period of seven years.

Justice Brett said he took into account Harington’s overall time in prison, his age and his work toward rehabilitation when deciding upon his sentence.

He jailed him for five years, backdated to February 2019, with the term to be served concurrently with his existing sentence – extending Harington’s release date for 18 months.