text: Colin Shearing, 70, fled across the Channel to Paris to avoid being jailed for a sex attack. File photo . A paedophile author has fled to France to avoid being jailed for a sex attack on a six-year-old girl. A European arrest warrant has been issued for Colin Shearing, 70, who failed to turn up to court yesterday to be sentenced. He was convicted of indecent assault and had been given a week on bail to 'put his personal matters in order.' But Swansea Crown Court heard that he had crossed the Channel and booked a room at the Hotel des Nation in Paris. He then moved to a second hotel and then to a third in a bid to stay one step ahead of the police, who are hunting him across the continent. Judge Huw Davies issued a European-wide warrant for Shearing's arrest. The court heard he twice assaulted the girl more than 20 years ago and was sentenced to three years prison in his absence. But he will now also receive an additional sentence for absconding once he has been found. Judge Davies said Shearing, of Chichester, Sussex, had shown 'absolutely no remorse' for what he had done. Shearing, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, agreed that among his books, which are published under the name Colin King, there was a passage dealing with children having sex together. The court heard that Shearing booked himself into the Hotel des Nations in Paris (pictured) before moving to a second and third hotel to evade police . He agreed that among his books, published under the name Colin King, there was a passage dealing with children having sex together - but he insisted that it was a work of pure fiction. The writer twice assaulted the girl in the 1980s. She revealed that memories of the assault came back to her years later and she was driven to complain when she discovered Shearing had become involved with a youth theatre. Shearing has been ordered to register as a sex offender. Shearing was convicted of indecent assault and sentenced to three years in jail at Swansea Crown Court (pictured) and now faces an additional sentence for absconding .
target: Judge issued European arrest warrant  for Colin Shearing, of Chichester .
  Shearing, published as Colin King, was convicted of indecent assault .
  He was released on bail and given a week to 'put personal matters in order .
  Sentenced to three years in jail in his absence and faces additional sentence for absconding .