Robin Frampton - Repeat Sex Offender - Baby Raping Pedo tries to sue

A NOTORIOUS paedophile is suing police at taxpayers' expense for alleged wrongful arrest. Here is a list of Robin Frampton's convictions...

November 1980:

Sentenced in Doncaster to two years' jail. While wearing women's clothes, he grabbed two girls aged nine and ten, threatened them with a knife and attempted to rape at least one of them.

February 1989:

Sentenced at Winchester to eight years for forcing his way into the home of a 71 year-old woman and raping her.

July 1999:

Armed with a knife, he indecently assaulted a prostitute. Sentenced to one year in jail, the sentence was increased to three years at the Court of Appeal. Required to register for life on the sex offenders' register.

July 2006:

Arrested and detained overnight in North Yorkshire for failing to comply with requirements of the sex offenders' register. Gave false name and address. Prosecution offered no evidence and the case was dismissed in November 2006.

Robin Frampton, 53, who was put on the sex offenders' register for life after an "appalling" indecent assault on a prostitute, was arrested in Selby in July 2006 for giving false details and failing to notify police of a change of address.

North Yorkshire Police feared he was about to commit an offence against a woman he had met through a telephone dating service, who was unaware of his sickening criminal past.

Frampton, who is also known as Robert Williams, was charged and kept in prison for almost four months before the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case.

With legal aid funded by the taxpayer he took the police force to Leeds County Court yesterday, claiming thousands of pounds in damages for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.

His barrister Rodney Ferm told the hearing: "All of us have rights, including the right not to be wrongly arrested, and we also have rights, provided by European legislation, for our private life not to be interfered with.

"In the case of a sex offender with an obligation to register, his rights are circumscribed by additional and quite onerous obligations.

"But if there is a breach of his rights, even within those restrictions, by the police, then there is no proper basis for treating him any differently to any other member of the community who could have, by definition, been arrested.

"No offence of any kind here was in fact committed by Mr Frampton."

The court heard that Frampton had told his wife he was attending a barbecue at a friend's house when he travelled from his Southampton home to North Yorkshire.

He went to a police station in Selby to inform them out of "courtesy" that he was staying in the area and showed officers a document which suggested his placement on the sex offenders' register had expired. He also failed to give police the correct name and address of the woman he was visiting, but he told the court he got the details wrong because he had never met her.

Detectives, believing that he had committed an offence by failing to register his new address within three days, traced him to the Selby woman's home and arrested him.

Peter Johnson, for the force, said: "These were officers with a genuine concern... they were simply doing their public duty."

But Mr Ferm said officers could not be sure whether the three-day period had elapsed because they did not know precisely when Frampton had left Southampton.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte