Devious and Very Dangerous Nonce Alert.🤬🤬 Creates the illusion that he’s the man to host children’s poetry competitions and gets himself the title of President of the Robert Burns World Federation to gain direct access to children after changing his name to try and hide his previous child SA charge.🤬🤬 That’s real deviancy and noncery at work. Mark Sherland, aka Douglas Stuart Hammond. This is serial sex offender Mark Sherland, aka Douglas Stuart Hammond. The writer ran an organisation which hosted children's poetry competitions but has been convicted of child sex offences once again. Sherland is facing jail for abusing three victims while working at a youth centre in Renfrew, near Glasgow. He lured the boys back to his home in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and abused them in his bedroom. In 2024 it emerged that Sherland had changed his name from Douglas Stuart Hammond after being convicted of earlier child sex abuse.