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The Perth Magistrates Court has been told a man found with more than 700 images of child pornography will plead guilty to five offences relating to the photographs. Following a four month investigation, the Australian Federal Police and officers from the Sex Offender Management Squad charged Bradley Pen Dragon with five counts of possessing child pornography. The images were found on five thumb drives seized during a search of his Perth home shortly after he was released from prison on similar charges. Dragon's lawyer today told the Perth Magistrate's Court her client would enter a formal guilty plea to the five charges at his next hearing in January. He was remanded in custody. www.abc.net.au (23-12-2009) |
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An Australian paedophile listed on a child sex offender register is due to be deported from Thailand, Thai immigration officials say. Paul Thompson, originally from Western Australia, was detained on August 11 on immigration charges while attempting to leave Thailand for Cambodia to renew his Thai visa. The 56-year-old's name was on an immigration watch list. A handcuffed Thompson was taken by Thai police to the airport mid-morning and was due to fly to Perth in the mid-afternoon, the officials said. Police have said Thompson has a long history of child abuse charges in several countries possibly over many decades. Thai police also accused him of molesting children in southern Thailand. Thompson had faced prison in Australia on paedophile charges, but fled to south-east Asia, where he travelled on multiple forged passports. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) recently applied for Thompson's passport to be cancelled but the application was only received by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs after he had left Australia. Thompson had been held since his arrest at the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC), the same holding cells as another notorious Australian child sex offender, Bradley Pen Dragon. Pen Dragon has been held at the IDC since he was released from Klong Prem prison on June 30 after receiving a Royal Pardon. He was among 70 foreign prisoners given a general amnesty that also went to thousands of prisoners in Thai jails by Thai King Bhumipol Adulyadej. Pen Dragon had served 10 years of a 15-year jail term for sex offences dating back to 1993. He was guilty of threatening, beating and raping three girls - one aged 12 and two aged eight. But so far no family members or associates in Australia have come forward to pay for Pen Dragon's air ticket. Thompson's departure came just hours before Thai police were to deport a 41-year-old US teacher, John Mark Karr, who was arrested on Thursday over the murder of American child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey ten years ago. Karr is expected to leave the immigration detention centre mid-afternoon local time. www.theage.com.au (20-8-2006) |
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CONFESSED child-killer John Karr is sharing a Bangkok prison cell with notorious Australian pedophile Bradley Pendragon. Formerly of Brisbane, Pendragon is in legal limbo -- released as part of a mass amnesty but stuck in an immigration jail because no one will pay his way home. The Australian Government has refused to fund his flight home, while his relatives have been in no hurry to pay for Pendragon's return. The child rapist, freed on June 30 after having served 10 years in one of Thailand's toughest prisons, is now in the same lock-up as another Australian pedophile, Paul Thompson. The former Sydney man was arrested on the Thai-Cambodian border a week ago and is set to be deported. But Pendragon, who was convicted of the knifepoint rape of girls aged eight to 12, faces an unknown fate. A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said this week: "The Australian Government will not be using taxpayers' money to fund Mr Pendragon's return to Australia. The ticket will need to be paid for by his family or Pendragon himself." Thai immigration officials said members of Pendragon's small family, believed to live in New South Wales, were also reluctant to pay for his return. Pendragon, 46, is apparently hoping an Australian charity or church group will help pay for his flight home, as his parents have died and there is no other way for him to get back. Thompson, however, looks set to be flown to Perth within days. Thompson, 57, was arrested at a checkpoint on the Cambodian border on August 11 because his visa was out of date. Thai officials then found his name on an immigration watch list for sex offenders. Police said he had been accused of molesting a boy in southern Thailand, allegedly after taking up work as an English teacher at a school in Krabi, south of Phuket. They said Thompson was previously expelled from Indonesia for sexually molesting boys. The Sunday Mail (20-8-2006) Jim Pollard |
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CONVICTED child sex offender Bradley Pen Dragon should be placed on the national child sex offender's register and will face constant monitoring by Queensland authorities if he returns to his home state, Premier Peter Beattie said today. The 46-year-old Queenslander, whose crimes included raping a nine-year-old disabled girl, emerged from Bangkok's Klong Prem prison yesterday after serving almost 10 years of a 15-year sentence. He was released to mark 60 years of rule by Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. DFAT has confirmed Pen Dragon has been released into Thai immigration detention pending his deportation to Australia. But the department would not say when he would be deported or where to. “We're unable to confirm his final destination as this is a matter for him and his family to decide upon,” a DFAT spokeswoman said. Mr Beattie today condemned Pen Dragon's release. “I frankly think he should have spent more time in jail,” Mr Beattie said. “There's nothing more horrendous than offences against children. “Our understanding at the moment is we don't know if he's coming here.” “But if he is, we would want him monitored and we would want him to be on the national register because we don't want (him) to reoffend, and I make no apology for that.” “One of the reasons we've brought in tough penalties in this state in relation to paedophiles is that, after examination, we actually believe that many paedophiles simply can't be cured.” Pen Dragon was the first foreigner jailed for child sex offences in Thailand after he was convicted of raping the disabled girl. He lured the nine-year-old from her village and paid her $A5 to perform sex acts. He has spent time in prison for possessing pornography and blasphemy and was sentenced to 15 years' jail in 1997 for threatening, beating and raping two girls, aged eight and 11, in a Bangkok hotel room in 1993. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has said the Australian Government will not be paying for his return to Australia, the cost of which will be met by him or his family. He will be given a one-way travel document valid only for Australia following the cancellation of his passport. AAP (1-07-2006) |
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