Elgin's Donald Main in lifelong restriction order for sex offences An "incorrigible" sex offender contacted young boys with a mobile phone he had been given by police for his own protection. Donald Main has been put under a lifelong restriction order after he contacted the youngsters after they had featured in a local newspaper in Elgin, Morayshire. The 24-year-old, who has a previous conviction for abducting a 12-year-old boy from a swimming pool in West Dunbartonshire, also admitted watching teenagers in a skatepark in Moray. On Tuesday, the sex offender was jailed for a minimum of 18 months before he can apply to the parole board to be released on licence. However, under the order, Main faces an indeterminate period of imprisonment for the sex offences. At a previous hearing, the High Court in Edinburgh was told Main had been given a mobile phone by his supervising police officer in order to ensure his personal safety, but he used it to contact the boys aged between ten and 16 years old. Sentencing him, Lord Uist said that Main met the risk criteria to the public to warrant being placed on the restriction order. He added: "It is plain to me that you are an incorrigible sex offender and a serious danger to the public. I therefore make an order for lifelong restriction in respect of you on all five charges taken together. Lord Uist concluded: "I therefore fix the punishment part of your sentence at 18 months. You must not assume that you will be released at the end of that period: you will be released only when the parole board is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public that you continue to be held in prison. Main began making contact with youngsters within days of being freed from a two-year jail sentence imposed after he followed a 12-year-old boy to his home with the distressed child jumping from a window to flee from him. The registered sex offender was also previously jailed for 40 months after being convicted of abducting a 12-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Dumbarton in 2006. He was also sentenced to 12 months detention in 2007 after breaching a probation order following indecent conduct towards boys aged between 11 and 13. Main called up a 16-year-old boy on three days during December last year and gave the name of an 18-year-old youth. He asked for the younger boy's mobile phone number but the teenager declined to give it to him. On December 23 he phoned the home of a ten-year-old boy who had featured in a newspaper and spoke to the youngster who passed the phone to his father. On the same day he called up a 13-year-old schoolboy who had also appeared in the publication.