Thomas Victor O'Carroll was born on 1945 and is a British writer and pro-paedophile advocate.
16 Facts About Tom O'Carroll
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Tom O'Carroll is a former chairman of the now disbanded Paedophile Information Exchange and was at one time a prominent member of the International Paedophile and Child Emancipation.
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Tom O'Carroll has been imprisoned for conspiring to corrupt public morals and distribution of child pornography.
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In 2016, Tom O'Carroll attempted to join the Labour Party but was expelled.
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Tom O'Carroll grew up in Coventry, attending Whitmore Park Primary School and Woodlands school.
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Tom O'Carroll worked as a teacher at Henry Parkes Primary School and Caludon Castle School in the 1970s.
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Tom O'Carroll was working as a press officer for the Open University in the 1970s when he was told of the existence of the Paedophile Information Exchange after he came out as a paedophile to lesbian members of the Open University Women's Group.
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At the time, Tom O'Carroll was sitting on the sub-committee for gay rights of the National Council for Civil Liberties.
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Mary-Kay Wilmers in the London Review of Books wrote: "Since Mr Tom O'Carroll sees nothing wrong with paedophilia, he isn't interested in our sympathy; and since his opinion of the non-paedophile world is no higher than the opinion the non-paedophile world has of him, he doesn't waste time trying to be conciliatory".
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In 2010, Tom O'Carroll's writing was affected following complaints to Amazon.
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In 1981, Tom O'Carroll was convicted for conspiracy to corrupt public morals over the contact ads section of the PIE magazine and was imprisoned for two years.
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Tom O'Carroll was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to distribute indecent photographs of children after supplying an undercover Metropolitan Police officer with a cache of indecent images of children obtained from his co-defendant Michael Studdert's secret vault containing 50,000 pornographic images.
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Tom O'Carroll said the images with which he was connected had been in his possession for a "very long time".
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Tom O'Carroll was arraigned on 1 June 2006 on indecent images of children charges.
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Tom O'Carroll joined the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn became party leader in September 2015.
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The next day, the party confirmed that Tom O'Carroll had been expelled.