Australia to deport British paedohile

A serial paedophile will be deported back to Britain as soon as he is released from jail after Australian authorities decided against charging him with rape, a minister said today.

The Western Australia government had planned to deport Robert Ernest Excell, 66, in March but his parole hearing was postponed due a new police investigation into allegations he committed rape while in jail in the state capital Perth.

Detectives said today they would not file fresh rape charges, meaning Excell can apply for parole next month. He is expected to be released and deported within days of the hearing.

Police in Britain, as well as a British child protection agency and a paedophile monitoring group, expressed serious concerns in March over the plan to release Excell from prison on condition he takes the next available flight to London.

British-born Excell has spent 37 of the past 39 years in prison for child sex convictions dating back to 1965, when he sodomised a seven-year-old boy.

He has been paroled from prison three times and committed another sex crime on each occasion, but is now considered by parole authorities to be a “low-to-moderate” risk.

The parole board has previously recommended Excell be released but the government has refused to allow him back in the Australian community.

State Attorney-General Jim McGinty said today Excell would be deported.

“There is no prospect of Mr Excell ever being released into the WA community,” McGinty said. “He will be released solely for the purposes of deportation, and he will be taken straight from prison to the airport to be deported to Britain.”

McGinty said Excell would be met by British police on his arrival and would be placed on the Sex Offenders Register, which will impose reporting requirements on him.