Fears paedophile will not be stopped by supervision

Strict parole conditions for serial paedophile Lloyd McIntosh, including 24-hour supervision, have failed to placate his Christchurch neighbours.

The Parole Board released the special conditions of McIntosh's supervision yesterday, which include that two people must accompany him in public and a ban on internet use.

He will also have his movements tracked by electronic bracelet for 10 years after supervision is lifted.

But residents in the suburb where McIntosh lives in Corrections Department housing near Paparua Prison say the measures do not go far enough to protect their children.

"He should be in an institution. He's not going to change in 10 years," Templeton Residents Association spokesman Peter Peterson said today.

McIntosh's offences include the rape of a 23-month-old baby and a six-year-old, and assaulting an intellectually disabled woman.

He served his sentences but the High Court at Christchurch deemed him too dangerous to be released into the community and imposed a 10-year supervision order -- the maximum possible under new legislation designed to protect society from serious offenders.

Conditions of his release are he resides at a specific address and is under the supervision of a probation officer.

He must submit to electronic monitoring if required to and will have 24-hour supervision with two supervisors when he goes out in "high-risk" situations in public.

He cannot have contact with anyone aged under 16 unless supervised by an informed adult, use electronic equipment capable of accessing the internet, get a job without written consent of the probation officer, or have contact with victims.

Katrina Casey, general manager probation and offender services for the Corrections Department, said the department was satisfied the board had imposed the maximum restraints available by law.

But United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today New Zealand needed to plug a legal gap in the way it handled serious offenders who had completed their sentences but were still clearly a risk to the community.

Mr Alexander said New Zealand currently had no adequate legal means of dealing with serial sex offenders such as McIntosh once their sentences were complete.

"Putting a regiment of guards on these guys would not be enough. It's massively costly and, in the long term, quite unreliable, given that an offender only has to give them the slip once," he said.

Mr Alexander renewed his call for sex offenders such as McIntosh only to be freed once they had their sexual impulses chemically controlled.

- NZPA