3:35pm Monday 20th July 2009
By Echo Reporter
A RAPIST and paedophile from Hampshire who used live maggots during a sick attack on a woman has been awarded over £3,000 damages for wrongful arrest.
Evil Robin Frampton, 53, formerly of Sarisbury Green, used legal aid to sue the police in a case costing the taxpayer more than £20,000.
His lawyers said he had not committed any offence and had been “humiliated”.
Frampton, who is also known as Robert Williams, had been put on the sex offenders register ten years ago after an indecent assault on a prostitute at his then home in Shears Road, Bishopstoke, which involved live maggots.
He was also jailed in 1980 for the attempted rape of a young girl, and again in 1989 for raping a pensioner in her own home.
At Southampton Crown Court, he admitted indecent assault and was jailed for one year. But following a plea by the Attorney General to the Court of Appeal his sentence was tripled and registered as a sex offender indefinitely.
Frampton was arrested in North Yorkshire for breaching the terms of his licence on release.
The case was later dropped at court and Frampton has been awarded £3,075 compensation after a judge at Leeds County Court found he had been wrongfully arrested and imprisoned by North Yorkshire Police.
Frampton lost an additional claim against the force for malicious prosecution.
North Yorkshire Police were ordered to pay the damages and Frampton's court costs of around £10,500, with any further costs to the claimant to be pursued through legal aid. Legal costs to the police are believed to be in the region of £10,000.
The court hearing earlier this year heard how, in July 2006, Frampton told his wife he was going to a barbecue at a male friend's house but instead travelled to Selby to stay with a woman he met through a telephone dating service.
He went to a police station in the town to inform them out of ''courtesy'' that he was staying in the area and showed officers a document with his alias Robert Williams, an old address and claiming his placement on the sex offenders' register had expired.
Detectives, who believed he had failed to give police his new address within the three-day time limit given to sex offenders who are moving home and thought he could pose a danger to members of the public, traced him to his girlfriend's house and arrested him for giving false details and failing to register a change of address.
He was charged and held in custody on remand for 110 days before the Crown Prosecution Service formally offered no evidence when the case was heard at crown court.
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