Sex offender jailed after travelling abroad
A REGISTERED sex offender has been jailed for failing to notify the police when he travelled to France.
Gordon Leicester, 63, breached the Sexual Offences Prevention Act by not making officers aware of the trip abroad, St Helens Magistrates’ Court heard.
Leicester, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty and magistrates sentenced him to 20 weeks in prison, stating that he had a record of previous offending.
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