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   From: bboyd@shaw.ca   
      
   A NOTORIOUS pedophile with a history of breaching supervised   
   release orders claims that wearing electronic GPS trackers were   
   a “safety device” that ensured sex offenders could not be   
   falsely accused of serious crimes.   
      
   Dangerous sex offender Roy Friend told the Brisbane Supreme   
   Court he was a fan of electronic monitoring devices and would   
   happily wear one if given yet another chance to leave prison to   
   live in the community.   
      
   Friend was testifying after having been returned to custody for   
   allegedly trying “to groom” a 15-year-old boy only a month after   
   being placed under a supervision order.   
      
   Friend was in court on Monday asking to be again released under   
   the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003.   
      
   “I feel as though I’m on the road to repairing (myself),” Friend   
   said in evidence.   
      
   When asked by barrister Angus Scott, for Attorney-General Jarrod   
   Bleijie, on his feelings about GPS monitoring devices, Friend   
   said: “They can work us out.”   
      
   “GPS trackers, I see them as a safety device. I can’t be accused   
   of doing something I haven’t done.   
      
   Friend also testified he had spoken with a 15-year-old male shop   
   assistant, at Goodna, a suburb of Ipswich, and given the boy his   
   phone number in late 2010.   
      
   Justice Peter Applegarth was told the boy threw the number away   
   and that Friend had no further contact with the child before   
   last year’s January floods.   
      
   However, Friend told the court he did approach the boy in his   
   car and offer him a lift after having seen him walking along a   
   road in April last year.   
      
   Friend said he started talking to the boy, asked him if he had   
   obtained his learner driver’s permit and suggested he could give   
   him lessons.   
      
   “(The boy) told me he was 16 and due to get his learner’s   
   (permit),” Friend said.   
      
   “When I found out (months later) he had just turned 16, I   
   freaked out.”   
      
   The court heard Friend had a long history of offending against   
   early teenage boys and once breached a supervised order in the   
   hope police would kill him.   
      
   He was first jailed for two years in 1991 on five charges of   
   indecent dealing with a boy under 17 and 13 charges of indecent   
   assault. The offences occurred in 1987 and 1988.   
      
   In 1997 was convicted of possession of child abuse photographs   
   and given a wholly suspended 6 months jail term.   
      
   His third set of offences concerned indecent treatment of a boy   
   under 16 in December 1997 and he was jailed for three months   
   after a successful appeal against a 12 month sentence.   
      
   Friend was jailed again after a fourth set of offences in April   
   2003 when he was convicted of 13 charges of indecent treatment   
   of a boy under 16 and two charges indecent treatment of a boy   
   under 12.   
      
   They occurred after Friend became acquainted with boys after he   
   met them as part of his employment.   
      
   After serving his full sentence for the 2003 offences Friend was   
   released on a supervised order in 2006.   
      
   In 2008, the supervision order was rescinded and he was sent   
   back to jail after he breached it by making sexually suggestive   
   remarks to a boy he met.   
      
   The detention order was confirmed on two occasions before   
   November 2010 when he was again released on a supervision order.   
      
   Justice Applegarth has reserved his decision.   
      
        
      
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