THE distraught husband of nursery paedophile Vanessa George today reveals frightening emails written by the monster which show how close she was to KIDNAPPING a child.

Horrified Andrew George only learned of the full content of the vile messages - sent to her pervert Facebook pal - from police last week . . . and it pushed him into attempting suicide.

"It was too much for me," he told the News of the World as he recovered from his overdose. "This wasn't all a fantasy. It was so close to happening.

"It was mentioned many, many times, and it was Vanessa who mentioned it the most. They were so close to doing it. That's what knocked me for six. I had no idea she was capable of any of this."

The emails included a chilling message sent to fellow paedophile Colin Blanchard from George's laptop as she sat eyeing up children playing at the family's favourite caravan park in Cornwall during a holiday there in May.

Andrew, 41, says: "I think that's what tipped me. I couldn't get that image out of my mind. I know the caravan, I know the view, I know the toilet block. I could picture it as if I was a fly on the wall."

The messages were written when George took their daughters Pearl 15, and Grace, 13, to the park around the spring and June Bank Holidays - leaving him at home.

"Now I know she wanted me out of the way," says Andrew. "She could send the girls off playing, and just sit on her laptop.

"I can imagine her sitting there, looking at the kids. She must have been looking across the park while she was writing to him.

Abuse

"The police told me she wrote in one, 'My God, there are so many children running loose round here I could grab one no problem at all. And we could get a room in the Premier Inn'.

"Then she said, 'God, this is like a goldmine here, there are so many children running free, no immediate parent around, easily one could go missing.'

"She also talked about when she was in the loo (in the caravan toilet block), and she came across a little girl who was on her own.

"Vanessa later wrote to Blanchard on her laptop, 'I could have grabbed her. We could have booked a room in a Premier Inn and done what we want. Abuse for our own pleasure.' Those were the words."

On another occasion, George sent Blanchard a message after spotting a little boy as he waited for his mum outside a lavatory cubicle at the Harlyn Sands Holiday Park. She ended with the words: "That would have been the perfect opportunity to snatch him, wouldn't it?"

Andrew says: "You have these lovely little kids running around at the park, they're as happy as hell. I can't believe what she was talking about."

His 18-stone wife is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to abusing children at Little Ted's Nursery, in Plymouth, Devon, and taking snaps of the assaults on her mobile phone.

All the pictures were from the neck down, and so far she has refused to identify her victims. George, 37, then swapped the snaps online in a child porn triangle with two paedophiles she'd met on Facebook, computer businessman Blanchard, 39, and sick single mum Angela Allen, 39.

The three of them wrote thousands of emails and text messages to each other containing disturbing fantasies, and swapped hundreds of sick images. One fantasy was said to involve snatching a child from a railway station.

In last week's News of the World Andrew branded his wife "cold, calculating scum" and revealed how their two daughters, Pearl 15, and Grace, 13, never wanted to speak to her again.

But the content of the messages he saw on Monday sent the gas fitter, who was already on anti- depressants to cope with the trauma, over the edge.

"I woke up on Tuesday and I felt terrible. Worse than usual," he says. "I had a lot more on my mind. I knew what I wanted to do. The intention was there. I couldn't take any more.

"I knew it would hurt a lot of people. I thought, 'My poor girls, I'm turning them into orphans' But the mind can only take so much.

"I made the decision. I had all the meds that I needed."

Sometimes running his hand over his mouth and face, other times hunched up looking at the floor, Andrew tells how he prepared to end his own life.

He laid out his bank card and Post Office family allowance card in the kitchen, and casually made sure his daughters knew their PINs.

Andrew says: "I told them, 'I meant to tell you my PIN codes'. They asked me why and I said, 'Just in case, you never know'.

"They both tapped them into their mobile phones."

Andrew then drove his two daughters to school - and on the way back he called at the Somerfield supermarket where he got drink, more pills - and a writing pad and envelopes to leave notes.

When he got back to the family home in Plymouth he dressed up to die in a black suit jacket with trousers, a white shirt, and a black tie. He also had a new black overcoat on, to look smart for anyone who would discover his body.

He drew the curtains in his living room, with the small fire switched on, sat on the sofa, his border collie dog Georgie curling up next to him, and put on the DVD of film Donnie Darko. Before taking his overdose, Andrew then sent text messages to both his daughters at school.

Notes

"First I told them I loved them very much. Then I said to them to go to their Nan's after school. I didn't want them finding me," he says. "I wrote, 'I love you two very much and am proud to be your dad. X X X.' It was upsetting."

Then he took the overdose. What saved him was a mobile phone call from a friend as he prepared to write his suicide notes.

"I answered the phone, heard his voice, and I broke," says Andrew.

"I think he said something like, 'You've got to keep your chin up mate, you'll get through this.' I said, 'It's too late for that now, I've had enough'." Andrew sounded so drowsy his worried friend called police. They were there in minutes.

Later, as he lay recovering in a hospital bed, Andrew felt remorse for what he had done. "I felt like a p***k to be honest when I looked at all the people around me," he says.

"There were old people and some poor girl opposite me who had hurt her back or something. I realised how stupid I'd been."

He was visited by two psychiatrists who assessed him before finding he was in a well enough mental state to be discharged.

He says: "I told them all I needed was some sleep and to talk to someone. I was at my wits' end.

"I still sleep in our double bed, and in my nightmares I can see her. I have visions of her being on the computer, and visions of her turning, and being angry. I'm waking up leaking wet, soaking, and my heart is banging." He is haunted by fears that any kidnap George and Blanchard carried out could have ended in a KILLING. "I think it would have ended up in a death, and maybe not just one either," he says.

But now he is going into therapy and has put his suicide bid behind him. He spent last week at a country house hotel while his daughters were cared for by relatives and is now determined to rebuild his life.

"I know I let a lot of people down," says Andrew. "My daughter Pearl was so angry with me. Grace was OK. She gave me a big loving hug. I regret doing it so much. I'm embarrassed. I just couldn't take hearing just what Vanessa was planning. I can't understand what she did.

"I feel dirty and ashamed to have been married to her. And I feel so sorry for the parents of the children she abused.

"That's why I was going to do it. Now I've promised I won't do it again, and I know I won't.

"There's light at the end of the tunnel. I know now that I'll come through this OK."

Additional reporting: TOM HENDRY

Pervert attacked in prison

ONE of the evil Facebook paedophile ring has been ATTACKED in prison by a female inmate.

PUNCHED IN CELL: Depraved Allen

Depraved Angela Allen - convicted along with Vanessa George and Colin Blanchard - was set upon by the lag in her cell. Prison officers pulled the inmate off Allen but she was left with a black eye and bruising.

Today we can reveal shocking new details of the case which has horrified Britain as Allen, 39, becomes the first member of the sick gang to talk.

She told a relative who visited her in HMP Bronzefield, Ashford, Middlesex, that there IS a FOURTH monster in the ring who is female. Allen also claims that she herself was blackmailed into her committing her crimes by Blanchard who GROOMED her.

Allen said of the jail attack: "I had been taken back to my cell to collect my things. A girl suddenly burst in and jumped me.

"She called me a bitch and punched me before a guard had to jump in and drag her off."

Assault

Allen is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to one charge of distributing indecent images of children, three of sexual assault of a child and one of sexual assault of a child by penetration.

The single mum from Nottingham used her phone and computer to talk about sex with animals and fantasies of men raping children. Now she blames IT consultant Blanchard. "I accept what I did was wrong but that man should rot in hell. He knew what he was doing when he found me on Facebook," she told the relative.

"I had just split up from my partner and was vulnerable. He told me to do as he said or he would arrange for my daughter to be taken from me and abused."

Allen revealed one of the ring had got away. "There is another one out there." she said. "Colin introduced her to me. She was obsessed with Colin. That completed the vicious circle."

Police are already aware of the woman's name. Another relative of Allen told us: "If I could have got my hands on her when I found out what she did I would have killed her".

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