A SEXUAL predator who has raped and sexually assaulted elderly women was banned by a court on Thursday from entering any cemetery without good reason.

It follows further police fears about him.

William Wayne Edwards, 52, of Bangor, Gwynedd, who has been branded a high risk to pensioners aged over 80, opposed the application to vary a sexual harm prevention order at Caernarfon court.

But district judge Gwyn Jones prohibited him from entering any cemetery unless to visit a grave or memorial of a family member or close family friend. He must tell police of the location and name of the deceased and the proposed time and date of the visit.

Edwards has served twelve years for raping an 84-year-old

woman in 1992 and seven years for false imprisonment and

sexual assault on another old woman in 2002.

He’s also been jailed for “chatting up” a woman of 82 in a library at Ruabon, Wrexham, and taking her for a drink to an hotel.

A judge once said he agreed with an assessment that he posed “a very high risk of harming elderly victims over 80 by serious sexual assault.”

The SOPO was imposed in 2010 after he’d approached a

92-year-old woman to try and get her contact details.