Sex offender found in banned area with sex toy

Summarised from Hull Daily Mail's report · Updated 5 Nov, 17:16 · Archive

A man banned from a red light district in Hull was found there in breach of a court order.

Richard Raper, 49, of Kilnsea Grove in east Hull, was found in an alleyway in the Scarborough Street red light district at 12.50am on May 19, in breach of a sexual harm prevention order banning him from the area indefinitely between 9pm and 7am each day. When confronted by police, he claimed he needed to use the toilet, though no evidence supported this account. A purple sex toy was seized from him during the incident.

Raper admitted to breaching the sexual harm prevention order at Hull Crown Court. He had previously confirmed understanding the exclusion zone's conditions. His conviction for three sexual offences against female sex workers in 1997 led to the order being imposed by Hull magistrates in July 2020. Raper has 15 previous convictions between 1997 and March 2020, including multiple earlier breaches of the same prevention order.

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• Sex offender banned from Hull 'red light district' found there with a sex toy'Frustrated' Richard Raper deliberately ignored the exclusion zone and told a police officer he was in an alleyway there as he 'needed the toilet'Hull Daily Mail · 5 Nov, 15:17

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