A man who has to give Yorkshire police 24 hours’ notice before he has
sex despite being cleared of rape is to go on hunger strike.
The
single man, in his 40s, admitted to previously having an interest in
sado-masochistic sex and used to visit a Fifty Shades Of Grey-style
fetish club with an ex-partner, Daily Record reports.The man is currently subject to a Sexual Risk Order which the force successfully applied for at a magistrates court.
The
order, which police will ask to be made permanent at a hearing in
August, includes a condition requiring him to inform police 24 hours
before he has sex with a new partner.
“I intend to commence hunger strike in protest over the SRO to which I am subject.
“I
protest that even though a jury found me unanimously not guilty, after
nearly two years I still find myself being punished for a crime that
never happened.I protest to being subject to an order that is unlawful in almost
every syllable, is unjustified and is so extreme as to be utterly
unlivable.
“Home Office guidelines clearly explain the types of
behaviour that SROs are designed to prevent, and none of it applies in
any way to me.
“The law has been misapplied deliberately by North
Yorkshire Police out of sour grapes over being shown to be prejudicial
and incompetent in their investigation of the original complaint against
me.”
The man denies having any criminal convictions, “not even a
parking ticket”, when he spoke to reporters at York Magistrates’ Court
earlier this month.
He said at the previous hearing: “It puts an end to your life.
“I had more freedom in prison.
