A MAN has lost his battle to stop police knowing about his sexual partners so officers can warn them about his behaviour.
John O’Neill, 33, must tell North Yorkshire Police (NYP) "as soon as practicable" whenever he intends to start a sexual relationship including a one-off night stand, after district judge Adrian Lower issued him with a permanent sexual risk order (SRO).
York Magistrates Court heard in August that Mr O’Neill claimed he had been sexually violent towards people in the past and had not been sure they had consented.
The court was told O’Neill told medical professionals about his sexual partners that “I need them to be scared or I don’t respond”.
He became notorious as the “sex-ban” man when magistrates made an interim SRO prohibiting him from starting sexual relationships without giving the police 24 hours notice.
At a hearing at the court yesterday, the district judge said: “The police cannot rely on Mr O’Neill to co-operate and act responsibly in these circumstances.”
He called Mr O’Neill a “very narcissistic and manipulative” person and said the order was necessary to protect women from physical and psychological harm by him.
Mr O’Neill opposed the order about the police on the grounds it breached his human rights to a private life, but the district judge said the law allowed for restrictions to prevent crime.
As Mr O’Neill objected on different grounds, the district judge said: “You can tell me black is white as long as you like. I know that black is black and white is white. I have heard enough.”
The district judge also made 11 other prohibitions under the permanent order which included bans on attending appointments with doctors, nurses and other health professionals unless a third person was present and discussing sado-masochistic matters with them unless they are giving him treatment for violent sex disorders.
An NYP spokesman said: “By the court imposing a Sexual Risk Order and granting the prohibitions applied for, this recognises NYP have taken the correct course of action to safeguard and protect the public from the risk the court has acknowledged Mr O’Neill poses.”
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