Secrets of a sex offender

RAYMOND Tetley is a registered sex offender who is continually refusing to co-operate with Mackay Child Protection and Investigation Unit police.

Registered sex offender Raymond Tetley, leaving court earlier this year, will be sentenced on Friday for failing to report his residential address to police. Picture: Peter Holt

RAYMOND Tetley is a registered sex offender who is continually refusing to co-operate with Mackay Child Protection and Investigation Unit police and provide them with essential personal details, including where he lives.

Tetley has been convicted five times in the last 13 months of failing to meet his lawful reporting obligations.

He moved from a house at Paget to a caravan near Kuttabul without notifying police. Then he went to live in the Rosella-Homebush area without telling them.

And when he was released from prison in early August, after serving a sentence for a domestic violence offence, he again failed to tell officers where he’d live.

Tetley is one of about 80 registered sex offenders in the Mackay region and there are another 80 suspected offenders awaiting the outcomes of their court cases.

Tetley was placed on the Australian National Child (Sex) Offenders Register, known as ANCOR, in 2005 and will remain on the register until 2020.

“He has on-going reporting obligations (until 2020),” prosecutor Sergeant Sabine Scott told the Mackay Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A registered ANCOR offender is required to provide the following information to police: Names; alias/pseudonym; their physical description; their residential addresses; children of interest; place of employment; place of education; descriptions of any vehicles; affiliations with organisations such as clubs or groups; a list of their offences; any travel arrangements.

Tetley’s latest offence was detected on August 22 when he was seen driving in the Rosella area, about 15km south of Mackay. Police stopped him and he could provide no reason why he hadn’t notified them of his residential address.

Tetley also came to police attention on September 17 when he punched his female partner while driving along the Bruce Highway near Mackay.

The court was told yesterday that the woman made Tetley stop the car. She got out and he punched her again. Eventually he knocked her to the ground and kicked her.

Police received several triple zero calls from concerned motorists who saw the woman fleeing from Tetley by running along the highway. One driver stopped, helped her, and took her to hospital where she received treatment for a cut on the inside of her upper lip, scratches and bruises.

Tetley pleaded guilty to failing to meet his ANCOR reporting obligations, breaching a domestic violence protection order, and assault causing bodily harm.

He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Friday.

Originally published as Secrets of a sex offender