Director of Public Prosecutions v Peter King
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | District Judge (MC) White |
| Judgment Date | 27 July 2007 |
| Neutral Citation | [2007] NIMag 1 |
| Court | Magistrates' Court (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 27 July 2007 |
Neutral Citation No. [2007] NIMag 1 Ref: Mag34
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered: 27/07/07
(subject to editorial corrections)*
In The Petty Sessions District of Craigavon
Director of Public Prosecutions Complainant
Peter King Defendant
Judgment
1. The defendant is charged as follows:-
“That you, between the 7th day of November 2006 and the 19th
day of January 2007, being a person to whom the notification
requirements of section 85 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003
applies, did fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with
section 85(1) of the said Act in that you did not, within the
relevant period, notify to police certain information set out in
section 83(5) of the said Act, including your name, home
address and date of birth, contrary to section 91(1)(a) of the
Sexual Offences Act 2003.”
The defendant asserts that he was not legally required to notify the said
information to police; alternatively, if he was so required, he had a
reasonable excuse for not doing so.
2. The facts of the case are not in dispute. The prosecution evidence was
agreed, and the defendant gave brief oral evidence on the issue of
reasonable excuse alone.
3. On 10 January 2000, at the Crown Court sitting at Craigavon, the
defendant was indicted and pleaded guilty to 10 counts of unlawful
carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 17, contrary to section
5(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. On 4 February
2000, on each count he received concurrent sentences of 12 months’
imprisonment suspended for 2 years.
4. At that time, the Sex Offenders Act 1997 was in force, and it contained
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