Paedophile posed as medic in refugee camp.

A convicted sex offender who traveled to Ukraine posing as a medic has been banned from leaving the UK.

Adam Wyles, 34, was ordered to surrender his passport for 18 months by Judge Martyn Levett at Ipswich Crown Court.

The judge said it was clear from Wyles' previous convictions that he had an entrenched sexual interest in young female children.

Between March 7 and 21, Wyles traveled to Poland to deliver aid to refugees fleeing from Ukraine and offered to rescue children from a Ukrainian orphanage.

Information was received from someone who traveled with Wyles to Poland that he posed as a medical aid officer in a refugee camp and had an air ambulance medic uniform and a false medical identification badge.

Wyles was given a community order and a five-year sexual harm prevention order restricting his contact with children in 2015 after he was convicted of possession of indecent images of children.

In 2020, Norwich Crown Court heard that Wyles had breached the requirements of the sexual harm prevention order by tricking a charity that supports children with disabilities into letting him drive on a trip to Europe in 2019.

On that occasion, Wyles admitted three further offenses of making indecent images of children and failing to comply with the notification requirements of a sexual harm prevention order and was jailed for 27 months.

The court heard that Wyles had a number of previous convictions including posing as a police officer and possessing a police uniform.

After considering Wyles' previous convictions, evidence about his trips to Poland and evidence from Wyles, who disputed some of the claims made about him, Judge Levett amended the earlier sexual harm prevention order and ordered him to surrender his passport and banned him from leaving the UK for 18 months.

"I reach the conclusion it is necessary and proportionate to amend the order," said the judge.

Wyles' attempt to spin his trip to this newspaper:

A convicted sex offender who traveled to Ukraine posing as a medic brazenly contacted this newspaper trying to spin a heroic story about his time there.

Adam Wyles, who was banned from leaving the country by a judge at Ipswich Crown Court, wrote to us saying he had just returned from Ukraine, where he said he had been providing medical evacuation and treatment services to those wounded and fleeing and wanted to speak to a journalist about his experiences.

A reporter spoke to him on the phone and he spoke at length about his experiences in Poland and Ukraine. He said he worked to evacuate wounded soldiers and rescued Ukrainian families from Lviv and even Kyiv.

He even said that he felt compelled to return to the country to help and planned to do so as soon as possible.

After researching Wyles' background and seeing his previous convictions, this newspaper declined to publish his story and launched an investigation into his trip.