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Remand on supervision breach charge
A convicted rapist accused of breaching the 10-year extended supervision order imposed after his release from prison was granted bail for a two-week remand without plea at the Rangiora Court House today.
John Albert Thomas Clarke, 44, who has served an 11-year jail term for two sex attacks, was remanded on bail to appear again on August 2.
He faces a charge that being a person who was subject to the extended supervision order, he failed without reasonable excuse to comply with a condition of the order by continuing to work as a door-to-door salesman.
The charge says Clarke?s supervising probation officer had told him the employment was unsuitable.
Clarke, who now goes by the name John Connor, worked with a contractor for Sky TV from just before the February 22 earthquake, and may have visited hundreds of Christchurch homes before Sky was told of his background and he was dismissed.
His supervision order forbids contact with anyone under the age of 16.
He served his jail sentence for kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl after offering her a ride from a Lyttelton sports function in 1997, at a time when he was already on bail on a charge of attacking a 24-year-old woman nine months earlier.
