Rapist gets payout for arrest error

12 April 2012

A convicted paedophile and rapist has been awarded damages for wrongful arrest in a case costing the taxpayer more than £20,000.

Robin Frampton, 53, from Southampton, who was placed on the sex offenders' register for life after an indecent assault on a prostitute, was arrested in Selby, North Yorkshire, for breaching the terms of his licence.

The case was later dropped at court and Frampton was on Monday awarded £3,075 compensation after a judge at Leeds County Court found he had been wrongfully arrested and imprisoned by North Yorkshire Police.

Frampton lost an additional claim against the force for malicious prosecution.

North Yorkshire Police were ordered to pay the damages and Frampton's court costs of around £10,500, with any further costs to the claimant to be pursued through legal aid.

Legal costs to the police are believed to be in the region of £10,000.

A one-day court hearing earlier this year heard how, in July 2006, Frampton told his wife he was going to a barbecue at a male friend's house but instead travelled to Selby to stay with a woman he met through a telephone dating service.

He went to a police station in the town to inform them out of "courtesy" that he was staying in the area and showed officers a document with his alias Robert Williams, an old address and claiming his placement on the sex offenders' register had expired. The "high-risk" sex offender also failed to give police the right name and address of his girlfriend.

Detectives, who believed he had failed to give police his new address within the three-day time limit given to sex offenders who are moving home and thought he could pose a danger to members of the public, traced him to his girlfriend's house and arrested him for giving false details and failing to register a change of address.

He was charged and held in custody on remand for 110 days before the Crown Prosecution Service formally offered no evidence when the case was heard at crown court.

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