However Thackray was placed on two years probation and a conviction was not recorded. He will, however, be a registered sex offender. Defence barrister Stephen Byrne said his 49-year-old client relapsed into ice use following a relationship breakdown. He has completed extensive drug rehabilitation, which he considers the catalyst for his offending, Mr Byrne said. Judge Dick noted a number of recent cases while sitting in Mackay District Court where there had been a connection between ice and really quite deviant sexual behaviour . It s starting to occur to me that in some people it s a trigger for really strange sexual (behaviour), Judge Dick said, before adding, I m not saying this man.