A sex attacker has been jailed for life for a series of sex offences on young boys, including the attempted rape of a six-year-old in Mirfield.

Alun Evans targeted youngsters during their school holidays, a Court was told.

His offences started with the attack on the six-year-old who was playing with friends on a Mirfield railway embankment in 1995.

Evans put on a yellow fluorescent jacket to make him look like a railway worker and forced the boy into the bushes where he tried to rape him.

Evans, 23, of Bankfield Avenue, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, admitted the attack and a number of sexual assaults.

He was eventually caught on camera outside a toilet in Leeds last August after raping a 13-year-old boy.

Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday that as the boy washed his hands Evans grabbed him and dragged him into the toilets in a busy shopping centre.

Sentencing Evans, the Recorder of Leeds, Mr Brian Lodge, described him as a "danger to the public."

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