Neighbours of one of two Sussex men who admitted being part of the world's largest internet child porn ring told today how they forced him out of their street.

David Hines, 30, of Chichester Road, Bognor, has admitted conspiring to distribute paedophile pictures on the world wide web, along with computer consultant Ian Baldock, 31, of Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards, and five other men.

All were bailed by Kingston Crown Court in London and will be sentenced on February 12 and 13.

They were members of the Wonderland Club, a sophisticated global porn gang whose membership fee was 10,000 indecent images of children.

Detectives launched raids around the country in September 1998 as part of Operation Cathedral while simultaneous raids took place in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the USA.

Those who lived near unemployed Hines, who is registered disabled, told today how they named and shamed him after hearing of his activities.

They ran a poster campaign at his old address in Essex Road, Bognor. One notice read: "We don't want paedophiles living in our road."

The protest was organised by mother-of-two "Mash" Mills, 36. She said: "I ran the posters off on the computer because I was absolutely horrified.

"Knowing about him meant I could not let my young children out on their own, whereas they used to be able to go the shop at the top of the road to buy comics and so on."

Another neighbour who displayed posters said she was "terrified" when she heard about Hines because her eight year-old son's bedroom window was opposite the terraced house where the paedophile had a bedsit.

Hines later moved to nearby Chichester Road. Another Essex Road resident said: "I hope he gets life."

Hines and Baldock were not ringleaders of the Wonderland Club but it was Baldock's home computer that led police to discover the size of the operation.

He was downloading paedophile material and web addresses on his computer led police to other members round the world.

Baldock, unmarried but the father of one child, offered no defence. Hines, who is single, admitted the offence at the first opportunity in court.

He was the man who made sure European members were using the service properly or, as one officer put it, "stuck to their code of practice".

The maximum sentence they face is three years - but the Government is considering increasing the penalties.

The other British men who pleaded guilty to the conspiracy are Antoni Skinner, of Cheltenham; Ahmed Ali, of London; Andrew Barlow, of Milton Keynes, Bucks; Frederick Stephens, of Hayes, Middlesex; and Gavin Seagers, of Dartford, Kent.

An eighth man, Steven Ellis, from Norwich, was also charged but committed suicide last January.

Another man, David Chaiken, of Maidenhead, Berks, was charged separately and convicted at Reading Crown Court last June.

Bob Packham, deputy director-general of the National Crime Squad, which ran Operation Cathedral, said: "This was a complex operation, requiring close co-ordination with law enforcement colleagues around the globe and in this country.

"It demonstrates once again that the internet can be used for evil purposes. But it also demonstrates national agencies such as ours have the ability to take on large-scale inquiries of this kind, whether it be paedophilia, drugs or any other type of serious and organised criminality."