Police: Process before sex offender's name put on registry
Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne, head of the Gender-Based Violence Unit of the police service. - SUREASH CHOLAI
WEDNESDAY’s order by a judge for a 37-year-old man to be registered as a sex offender was the first under the amended Sexual Offences Act, which establishes the National Sex Offenders’ Registry.
Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne, head of the police Gender-Based Violence Unit, confirmed on Thursday that the order of Justice Hayden St Clair-Douglas was the first made by a court for a convicted sex offender to be put on the registry.
In a telephone interview with Newsday, she said there was a process before Everton Joseph’s name is registered. He first has to serve the nine-year prison term imposed by the judge.