Police must be told before man has sex

A man who has to give police 24 hours’ notice before he has sex with a new partner once told a psychiatric nurse he needed women “to be scared or I don’t respond”, a court has heard.

John O’Neill, aged 45, who was once described by a judge as a “very dangerous individual”, also discussed committing acts of sexual violence during a consultation with the nurse.

O’Neill, an IT consultant currently living rough in a wood, was appearing at York Magistrates’ Court for a hearing to decide whether an interim sexual risk order (SRO) should be made permanent or should end.