Child rapist doctoring CV to get work

A Christchurch businessman was horrified to discover that a convicted child rapist had applied for a job at his firm as a car groomer, his CV disguising his detention at a mental hospital as "work experience".

"I think it's absolutely disgusting," Ray Dyer, from Hopmans QEII Quality Cars, said.

"Based on his CV some poor businessman could maybe give him a chance and their business would be wrecked. You'd have people boycotting your business, it would be stone dead."

Mr Dyer discovered who the man was upon reading a newspaper article yesterday.

Lloyd McIntosh was sent to Lake Alice Mental Hospital in 1989 when he was deemed unfit to answer a charge of raping a six-year-old girl.

He was freed in 1993 when a law change meant he was no longer considered mentally ill.

McIntosh's CV, obtained by the Dominion Post newspaper yesterday, says he worked at the mental hospital, not that he was a patient.

The CV refers only to his having "recently completed serving time" and ignores the fact he is a repeat child rapist, and was jailed for a sex attack on an intellectually handicapped woman, says the newspaper.

It lists his experience at the hospital in 1988 as a "voluntary carer" and lists his duties as "assisting elderly residents with daily household chores and planning activities".

Mr Dyer told the newspaper that McIntosh walked into the yard on Wednesday, seeking a job as a car groomer.

He described himself as a hard worker and left his CV with the businessman.

All the time he was being watched by three people from a nearby car.

According to McIntosh's 10-year extended supervision order, he must be accompanied by two minders in public because of the risk of his reoffending.

Mr Dyer said he was furious McIntosh had sought a job in an area full of children.

"There's a kindergarten straight across the road, a school less than 250 metres away."

He said it was outrageous McIntosh's history was glossed over.

"His CV should have those details. It's misleading, it's dishonest, it's a disgrace. He's a bloody paedophile."

A covering letter says he is on probation, must have no contact with children under 16 and must have support staff with him at all times "for the short time".

The agency supervising McIntosh, the name of which is suppressed, is contractually obliged by Corrections to help him develop life skills, including finding employment.

- NZPA