A MAN has been jailed after failing to comply with requirements of the sex offenders register.

Paul Andrew Gilmore, aged 56, stayed at a relative’s address for two to five nights at a time over a four-month period.

This was a breach of his notification requirements as a registered sex offender, as was the fact he had been at the address for at least 12 hours where an under 18 resided, as he had failed to make police aware and obtain permission for his actions.

The third failure to comply was when police found him to be in possession of a credit card, which had not been reported.

Bournemouth Crown Court heard Gilmore, 56, had been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely after being convicted of offences of indecent assault in the 1990s.

Prosecuting, Stuart Ellacott said police had gone to Gilmore’s relative’s home in relation to separate enquiries. When there the relative told officers about the defendant’s periods staying there.

A subsequent search of Gilmore’s address in King’s Park Road, Bournemouth, led to the discovery of the Argos credit card in his wallet.

Mr Ellacott said in police interview the defendant said we was “fully aware” of his notification requirements and he accepted being at his relative’s address.

“He had been a bit silly as he put it,” the prosecutor said.

In relation to the credit card, Gilmore thought it was a store card.

The court heard there had been previous notification requirement failures in 2019 and 2020.

Gilmore pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to comply with sex offenders register notification requirements at an earlier hearing.

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Mitigating, Richard Tutt said the defendant had reconciled with his relative at the wish of his mother, who he had cared for, before her death.

Mr Tutt said Gilmore “finds life tricky”, adding: “He struggles to understand why it is he still is on this register.”

The court heard he made an application to come off the register around 10 years ago but this was rejected.

Mr Tutt said if Gilmore had notified authorities of his intention to stay at his relative’s address before going there then he could have been given permission to do so.

Recorder Nicholas Haggan KC said it was clear from the contents of the pre-sentence report that the defendant believed he should no longer be on the register.

“You made it clear you had no intention of complying with the terms of the order,” Recorder Haggan KC said.

The judge handed Gilmore a sentence of four months’ imprisonment.

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