Alexander: Paedophile supervision a tragic joke
Just four months after United Future's Marc Alexander publicly questioned whether there would be increased supervision
of released sex offenders, the paroled paedophile at the centre of his concerns at the time has been convicted of
assaulting an intellectually handicapped woman - while his probation supervisor stood waiting outside his bedroom.
"You never want to be right in these cases, but tragically in a society such as ours, where the offenders rights are for
all intents and purposes paramount, the critics are right yet again," Mr Alexander, United Future's law and order
spokesman, said after Lloyd Alexander McIntosh was returned to prison.
"The court was told that his probation supervisor waited outside the Palmerston North man's bedroom as the man attacked
the woman because he felt that he couldn't go into the room without the man's consent.
"It's finally happened - the lunatics are running the asylum.
"And I'm not having a go at this individual personally, but we have to ask how we are running the justice system and the
parole system when a twice-convicted paedophile has 'rights' to privacy of this sort.
"The woman had a right not to be assaulted by this seriously troubled individual. Everything in law, every manner of
application needs to be targeted on her rights."
"This man has the right to be locked up and have the key thrown away. It was only years of weak, pussy-footing
legislation that let him out in the first place," Mr Alexander said.
In June, police had to ask McIntosh's permission before warning neighbours about his arriving in their neighbourhood.