Kinge, who served a nine-month prison sentence for downloading 115 indecent images, added the bizzare words: "Daniel Kinge died on November 18."

It is thought to be a reference to the day the award-winning reception class teacher, then 23, was arrested by detectives at Wellesbourne Primary School in 2004.


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The shock swoop was the first in a series of high profile arrests brought about by the international Operation Jinks investigation, sparked after an arrest in the US.

A relative of child victims of men who were in the same internet gang, but committed more serious crimes, said: "What about the victims in the pictures he downloaded? Each one is a crime - an act of abuse carried out against a child.

"Daniel Kinge died by signing up for those pictures, meeting up with other paedophiles on the internet and betraying the people he was supposed to protect.

"It's interesting to see he only thinks his life effectively ended when he got caught."

Kinge's Friends Reunited profile lists his education history, though entries about his life have been erased since his arrest.

The former Leamington resident's five-word sentence - the first public proclamation of any of the Jinks paedophiles - was added in January this year.

The relative said: "What really worries is that he might be using the internet again. There is no such thing as rehabilitation for any of these men."

Three other men were caught by the Jinks team - but the resulting sentences were widely criticised as lenient.

Self-confessed "monster" and ringleader Jonathan Scarcliffe, 38, of Leamington, received a five-and-a-half-year prison term in April 2005 after admitting 26 sickening counts of abusing children and hoarding images.

He is eligible for parole at September after serving a mere fraction of the sentence - but is understood to not want to take it.

Accomplice David Bell, 45, of County Durham, was jailed on the same date for four years and released at Christmas.

A campaign for tougher sentences led by one family of children abused by Scarcliffe was turned down in a confusing ruling by solicitor general Mike O'Brien.

He has the power to refer "unduly lenient" sentences to the Court of Appeal.

But in June 2005 he decided that "the case law seems clear" and that "Jonathan Scarcliffe's crimes qualified for such a reference, but David Bell's did not. I am sorry to have to let you know that I decided not to refer Scarcliffe's crimes to that court."

The relative, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: "These sentences are a licence to go out and abuse children again."