Amazon bins Scots paedo's kids book he wrote under a fake name

A kids book by a Scots child sex abuser has been binned by Amazon . Twisted Simon Carroll, 46, wrote Mini Monster Mystery: An Andrew Aims Adventure under a fake name. The beast – jailed for four years for abusing two boys – used the pseudonym SD Lang. Victim Ross Thompson suffered severe trauma into adulthood which led to him losing his life after battling drugs . His sister, Kirsty Astbury, said: “I feel relieved how quickly Amazon acted. “I’m hopefully protecting others and stopping someone with that history profiting from children through their writing. “But I still feel angry the book was even available in the first place. It’s shocking it got that far. This is the problem with using different names. We don’t always know who it really is.” Carroll chose to use Lang as it’s his wife’s maiden name with the SD initials coming from his own forenames Simon David. He also set up a Facebook profile to promote the book on literary platforms. In one, he said: “I’ve just published my first Children’s novel – an adventure story featuring an augmented reality video game, AI and a transforming gadget wheelchair. Buy as a gift for your child, nephew, niece or grandchild.” In his Amazon bio, the married dad-of-four wrote: “Hi. I am an Edinburgh-born -Scottish author. I started writing stories almost as soon as I learned to read and write. “At 40, I have spent my life working in various settings, none of which fully allowed me to exercise my creative muscles. “So now I have returned to university as a mature student to study media, film, creative writing and screenwriting. “I am also a photographer and AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego).” The following year he boasted about trips to family favourites Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and Legoland. All three venues state in their regulations that convicted child sex offenders are banned from visiting. In 2016, Carroll – a former director of a community centre and nursery in Penicuik, Midlothian – was convicted of sexually abusing Ross and another young boy when he was a teenager. Last year, he was charged with changing his name but the case was dropped. In May, a picture showed him as part of a student movie at Queen Margaret University. An Amazon spokesman said: “We have content guidelines governing which books can be listed for sale. We invest significant time and resources to ensure our guidelines are followed and remove books that do not adhere.” A Queen Margaret University spokesperson said: “To protect the privacy and safety of our student population, we are unable to confirm whether an individual is studying with us.”