Paedophile Colin Humphrys to stay in jail despite DPP release appeal being dismissed
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An appeal by the South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent the release of notorious paedophile Colin Humphrys has failed.
But he will stay in jail for now.
The Supreme Court granted Humphrys supervised release into the Bowden-Brompton area in March despite a psychiatrist's finding that he posed a high risk of re-offending.
The Director of Public Prosecutions argued against the decision in the Full Court but the appeal was dismissed today.
The court issued an order that Humphrys not be released for 14 days to allow new legislation to be considered.
Last Thursday, State Parliament passed new laws preventing dangerous sex offenders from being released into the community if they were unable or unwilling to control their sexual instincts.
Humphrys had been serving an indefinite prison term for his extensive history of sexual offending against children, including the abduction and abuse of a boy in the early 1990s and the sexual assault of a boy in a Port Adelaide toilet block in 2003.
Both the State Government and the Labor Party introduced legislation to change prison release laws after the Supreme Court granted Humphrys release into the Bowden-Brompton area.
Topics: child-abuse, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, state-parliament, adelaide-5000, sa
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