Deviant past of accused.

THE man accused of abducting and sexually abusing Jaycee Lee Dugard testified during a previous kidnapping and rape case that he prowled through residential neighbourhoods as a peeping tom and had strong rape desires.

During his 1977 kidnapping trial, Phillip Garrido also said he leered at girls as young as seven and 10, and he admitted exposing himself to some of them.

He testified that LSD and cocaine acted as sexual stimulants, and that he frequently carried out sexual acts often in public places while watching young females.

The portrait of the 58-year-old comes from trial transcripts and a psychiatric report from unrelated case files made public today.

In that case, Garrido was convicted in Reno, Nevada, of kidnapping a stranger. He later admitted to raping her in a rented storage unit described by investigators as a "sex palace" with items for playing out his sexual fantasies.

Garrido and his wife Nancy are being held in on charges that they kidnapped and raped Ms Dugard, then held her captive at their home for the past 18 years even as parole officers and police occasionally turned up at his house.

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