AUSTRALIA
The Age
November 25, 2015
Mark Russell
Court Reporter for The Age
Convicted paedophile Robin Fletcher, who has claimed his religion endorses sex between children and adults, has lost his bid to have a strict supervision order relaxed while living in a sex-offender facility.
Supreme Court Justice Phillip Priest ordered the supervision order for Fletcher, 59, who is legally blind, remain unchanged until at least June 2016.
“I am satisfied that [Fletcher] still poses an unacceptable risk of committing a relevant offence if a supervision order is not in effect,” Justice Priest.
Fletcher has been living at Corella Place – which houses offenders who have finished their sentences but are deemed to have an unacceptable risk of reoffending – since his release in 2006 after serving eight years’ jail for raping and prostituting two 15-year-old girls.
He has also refused to participate in sex-offender rehabilitation during his time at Corella Place.
The village-style complex, next to Ararat’s Hopkins Correctional Centre in western Victoria, has no walls surrounding the facility, but residents are monitored with electronic bracelets and cannot leave without permission.
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