The Star: June 06, 2019

A CHRISTCHURCH teen
being monitored after he was
caught plotting a 2017 terror
attack sparked a manhunt last
week after he walked out of his
supervised accommodation.
The 19-year-old, who cannot
be named for legal reasons,
said he felt frightened when he
escaped.
He walked to a city Burger
King, which reminded him of
when his mother used to take
him there when he was feeling
low, the district court was told
yesterday.
After withdrawing some cash,
he was planning to flag a taxi for
his mother’s house when he was
tracked down, the New Zealand
Herald reported.
Yesterday, he admitted
breaching his intensive
supervision order, which he was
sentenced to in February last year.
He was radicalised online and
had planned to ram a car into a
group of people in Christchurch
and then stab them. He told police
that he’d “done it for Allah”.
The teenager has been
regularly seeing a judge for
judicial monitoring sessions and
this year has already admitted
three breaches of the intensive
supervision order, including
two which came after he used
his mother’s phone to view
pornography.
After he was picked up last
week, he has been kept in prison.
The jail time has proved a
wake-up call, with him telling
Judge Stephen O’Driscoll
yesterday that he is “not built for
prison”.
In a heartfelt letter that he
penned from his jail cell, the teen
said how he’d felt threatened
when he walked out.
He hadn’t seen his mother for
three weeks and was trying to get
to her, where he felt safe, he said.
“Please forgive me, your
honour,” said the remorseful
youth.
He acknowledged that “recent
events in Christchurch” might
have some people worried about
him walking away.
But he assured the court that
he had promised never to return
to extremism. At an earlier court
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Another chance for teen
hearing, he said how the March
15 mosque terror attack had
helped him reflect on his own
earlier extremist thinking.
Judge O’Driscoll last month
warned the teenager that if he
didn’t control his anger and
emotions, he faced being sent to
prison.
Judge O’Driscoll yesterday
granted him bail back to his
supervised accommodation, but
warned him he was running out
of chances.
The judge thanked him for
the impressive letter, opening
himself up to his thoughts,
feelings and emotions.
“I’m prepared to give you
another chance. I have given
you many chances and some
would say I have given you too
many.”
• By Sophie Cornish
SERIAL SEX offender Lloyd
McIntosh was sent back to
prison after abusing staff at
his Christchurch supported
accommodation it can be
revealed.
McIntosh, one of New
Zealand’s worst sex offenders,
was jailed for three months in
April. He was released in the
middle of last of month and
is now back in his supported
accommodation.
McIntosh has served time for
offences including unlawful
sexual connection with a
23-month-old baby, raping a
six-year-old, and assaulting an
intellectually disabled woman.
He was released in 2005,
and became the first man in
the country to be subject to a
10-year Extended Supervision
Order, which will continue until
mid-2025.
As a condition of the order, he
is required to live at an address
approved by his probation
officer. He is not able to move
from that address without
prior written approval from his
probation officer.
Department of Corrections
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Sex offender
sent back to jail
southern regional operations
director Chris O’Brien-Smith
said an ongoing deterioration
in McIntosh’s behaviour meant
he was warned that any further
abusive behaviour toward staff
would result in him being
discharged, meaning that he
would be without approved
accommodation.
In April, McIntosh was verbally
abusive toward staff again.
“He had disregarded the rules
of the service, which resulted
in him being discharged. He
therefore had no approved
accommodation and was
charged with breaching the
conditions of his order,” said Ms
O’Brien-Smith.
He was convicted and
sentenced to three months
imprisonment.
“In accordance with the
Parole Act 2002, prisoners who
are serving a sentence of less
than two years imprisonment
are automatically released after
serving half of their sentence.
The offender was released from
prison on May 17 and returned
to reside at approved supported
accommodation,” said Ms
O’Brien-Smith.
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