10/08/2006

Sex offender remanded

A "high risk" sex offender who went missing after failing to comply with his probation conditions, has been remanded in custody after failing to inform police that he had changed his address.

Robert Simpson Wallace, 77, and a convicted sex offender, was arrested in Lurgan, County Armagh last night after police issued a public appeal to find him, after he left his approved accommodation in Belfast, and could not be found, despite numerous attempts to locate him.

Wallace, who was on probation after being jailed for a sex attack on a girl, appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court earlier today, charged with failing to register details of his new address with police and the Probation Service and failing to regularly sign the sex offenders` register.

He was remanded for four weeks, and will reappear before the same court via videolink on September 7.

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