Man banned from having sex without telling police first is JAILED

 

Geoffrey Ball sentenced to 16 months for flouting sexual harm prevention order Ball met a woman,

50, in a pub before going back to her Middlesbrough home The 44-year-old was branded a menace to women having disregarded the ban His barrister said that Ball must accept he could not act like 'any normal person'

A man banned from having sex without telling the police first has been jailed after having a one-night stand with a woman he met in a pub.

Geoffrey Ball was sentenced to 16 months in prison after flouting the sexual harm prevention order.

The 44-year-old was branded a menace to women having disregarded the ban, a legal restriction described by the judge as 'draconian but necessary'.

He met the 50-year-old woman in a Yates's pub and began chatting to her and her daughter before going back to the woman's home in Middlesbrough and having sex.

It was enough to place him in breach of the order, and in court, his barrister said he accepted he could not act like 'any normal person' because of the restriction.

Ball claimed he had no memory of having sex, but said if the forensic evidence showed he had, he would accept it.

He told police he was '5 out of 10 on the drunk scale', however he was still able to tell the daughter's boyfriend he had 'banged her in an alley'. 

Ball was warned he must stay away from women unless he told them in full about his past crimes and notified his supervising police officer. 

Joanne Kidd, prosecuting, told Teesside Crown Court: 'He is a registered sex offender. He has a sexual assault conviction in 2011, then a further sexual assault in 2015.

'It is right to say that he has a further historical conviction for indecent assault dating back to 1989.

'In January 2015 he was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order arising out of concerns being expressed as to his behaviour with local women.

'That order contained a clause which required him to inform his supervising police officer of meetings with women, and to disclose to that officer any relationships he was entering into, and also a requirement that he inform any woman who fell into that group as to his last sexual offending history.

'On August 21 last year he met a group of people in Yates's in Middlesbrough and stayed in their company through the course of the evening.

'Part of the group was a woman in her 50s, her daughter, and her daughter's boyfriend.

'The daughter and her boyfriend left the pub, and left the defendant and the woman together alone.

'They returned home in the early hours of the following morning, Mrs Wilson seemingly considerably affected by alcohol.

'They went to her bedroom, and sounds were heard by the others indicative of sexual intercourse taking place during the course of the night.'

ok noted.

source: daily mail.