A COMPULSIVE sex offender considered a danger to women has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Four months ago, specialist treatment was obtained for 23-year-old Jonathon Davies following a high-profile protest amid fears that unless his offending was addressed it would increase in seriousness.

But Liverpool Crown Court heard that in mid-August the manager of the Wolvercote Clinic in Epsom, Surrey, decided that Davies could no longer stay there because he had failed to abide by its rules.

Davies, formerly of Edith Road, Wallasey, appeared at court for breaching the three-year probation order imposed on him in June and re-sentence on the offences for which he was given probation.

Judge David Marshall Evans QC said that in essence Davies's problem was that he has no self-control or self-discipline in relation to both alcohol and sex.

In passing a longer than normal sentence he said: "In June the court took the merciful approach to impose probation with stringent conditions in place of the obvious answer, which was to send you to prison for a substantial period of custody.

"This was in view of the fact that in January, having been placed on probation for three years for outraging public decency, you had eight days later committed an indecent exposure and in March an indecent assault.

"At the time, the Wolvercote Clinic seemed to be the best hope of you avoiding further serious offences against women. Regrettably, custody is now inevitable.

"It is clear from the assessment from the clinic that you have habits of behaviour and traits of thought which make you extremely dangerous to women.

"It appears you are likely to commit further offences of indecent assault or indecent exposure and maybe of a more serious and violent character if you are exposed to temptation - and it appears that every woman exposes you to temptation - and if you indulge in alcohol or other substances which effect your mental equilibrium.

"I am convinced that you are dangerous and that it is necessary to protect the public."

Davies, who pleaded guilty to indecent assault and indecent exposure, was ordered to register under the Sex Offenders' Act for life and told he would be on extended licence for the next ten years.

Mr Thomas Eaton, prosecuting, said that after the clinic made its decision in August Davies absconded.

On January 19 Davies, who has convictions for sex offences dating back to 1992, behaved indecently in view of a female ticket collector at a Liverpool railway station.

Six weeks later Davies, who had again been drinking, committed a similar offence against a lone female lecturer at a Wirral college into whose classroom he walked and whom he approached as she tried to telephone for help, he said.

At the time Davies was on bail and on probation for outraging public decency at two Wirral girls' schools.

Mr David Watson, defending, said that alcohol has always been hand in hand with Davies' offending and it led to his downfall at the clinic, where he was caught with drink on the premises.

He had found it a challenging environment and the treatment positive but he had flouted the rules, he said.

Davies seems to suffer from a compulsion to commit these offences. There was thought to be some sort of psychiatric disorder, but the psychiatric reports said there was nothing wrong with him, he said.

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