The Evening Star is holding a BeechWatch to give a daily warning to readersabout a rapist in their midst.

The paper will carry this picture of serial sex offender Steven Beech every dayuntil he finally leaves town.

Beech has 115 convictions – mainly for sex offences – and arrived in Ipswich from Sheffield eight days ago.

Although he is a free man, he is considered so dangerous that he is lodgingat the police station and has to be accompanied by two police officerswherever he goes.

His new home is less than 200 yards from the subway where rapist KevinChambers attacked an Ipswich teenager just hours after being sent to thetown from prison.

The Star reported how Beech, (38), said on Monday that he had met Chambers in prison, and thought he was “a nice bloke.”

The police station’s newest resident said he would be leaving the town afterhis presence here attracted widespread publicity.

But the Star is keeping count of the days he is still at the town’s police station. Every day it will print his picture to warn women to stay out of his way.

Its investigation has revealed he has not left because he can’t afford to move out of Ipswich.

And it found that under the terms of a court order, he is banned from living in the samepremises as a woman and went to Ipswich after being forced out of a house in Sheffield by worried residents.