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Self-proclaimed sex witch Robin Fletcher is now free to roam the community.
A LEGALLY blind, self-described “Wiccan” who enslaved and abused two teenage girls will be free to roam the community after a Victorian court ruling.
While working as a drug abuse and sexual guidance youth counsellor, “witch” Robin Angus Fletcher used hypnotism and mind-altering techniques to prostitute two 15-year-old girls.
He was jailed in 1998 and released in 2006, but lived under supervision orders for the next decade.
Robin Fletcher outside the Supreme Court.Source:News Limited
Robin Fletcher outside the Supreme Court.Source:News Limited
When the orders were about to expire in 2016, Victorian authorities applied to renew them.
In February this year, Supreme Court Justice Phillip Priest ruled that despite Fletcher’s “repellent” offences, he did not pose, according to the law, an unacceptable risk to the community.
The Department of Justice went to the Court of Appeal, arguing Justice Priest was “plainly wrong” in concluding there was no unacceptable risk.
Fletcher is pictured in the 1990s.Source:News Limited
But the Court of Appeal upheld the Supreme Court decision on Friday. It found it was well open to the judge, on the evidence before him, to reach his conclusion.
Court of Appeal President Justice Chris Maxwell, Justice Robert Redlich and Justice David Beach acknowledged the consequences of any child sex offence would be harmful.
But they said the department’s position went “well beyond what the legislature provided for when it introduced the regime of post-sentence detention and supervision”.