Child Molesters, Child Abuse Effects: Bulimia, Eating Disorders, Addictions

Ex-wife Laura, 65, said: 'He blackmailed me into staying in touch with him by threatening to make up lies about me in his book.

'George claimed he'd written about all the hundreds of children he'd touched.

'He told me his dying wish was to abuse 'one more child'. He was still determined to abuse children as long as he had breath in his body.'

The pervert, who died in a Dumfries hospital from cancer on Thursday, spent almost 20 years behind bars for abusing children.

He left his book to local writer Frank Ryan, who said yesterday: 'There's no doubt Belmonte was a truly evil man.

'Right up until his last days, I would have judged him to be a danger to children. He never expressed a shred of remorse.'

Belmonte was freed just four months ago after serving part of a two-year sentence for luring a boy of seven and a girl of 12 to a picnic and taking pictures of a schoolgirl.

Likened to Moors Murderer Ian Brady because he taped his victims'desperate cries for help, Belmonte surfaced in Dumfries six years ago.

The Jersey-born pervert was put up in a £200,000 luxury mansion by social workers while locals threatened to lynch him.

He had six children, all of whom have changed their names to be free of their monster father.

Third wife Laura, a prison visitor, married Belmonte in 1998 during one of his spells in jail without knowing his full identity.

She said that he hinted he may have even killed.

Laura said: 'He would laugh at how easy it was to get to little children in quiet country areas like Dumfries. He'd say poor parents in council estates were easy fodder.

'He'd ask me if I realised just how easy it was to get rid of a body, especially a little body of a child. It chilled me to the bone.

'I'd ask him if he'd killed and he'd laugh and say, 'Wait till you read my book.'