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| Warning as sex offender absconds | Warning as sex offender absconds |
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| A high risk convicted sex offender who poses a serious threat to children is on the run in Northern Ireland. | A high risk convicted sex offender who poses a serious threat to children is on the run in Northern Ireland. |
| The PSNI have taken the unusual step of warning the public about Paul Hunter Redpath, 35, who has a Scottish accent. | |
| They said he should not be approached as he poses a serious threat to vulnerable children and young people. | They said he should not be approached as he poses a serious threat to vulnerable children and young people. |
| A police spokesman said Redpath had failed to comply with his probation conditions and the PSNI have asked him to give himself up. | A police spokesman said Redpath had failed to comply with his probation conditions and the PSNI have asked him to give himself up. |
| Redpath left his approved accommodation recently and has not been seen since, despite police attempts to locate him. | Redpath left his approved accommodation recently and has not been seen since, despite police attempts to locate him. |
| Redpath is described as 6ft 2ins tall, thin, with blue eyes and a fair complexion. | |
| The former head of the Probation Service in Northern Ireland, Breidge Gadd, said a number of police forces would be actively looking out for him. | |
| "If he is spotted he would be immediately arrested and then he can be brought back into custody and would appear before a court again for breach of the conditions of his probation order," she said. | |
| "Possibly five or 10 years ago the police may not have issued this sort of general warning. | |
| "But nowadays with the increased interest in, the increased anxiety about any sort of sex offender, they are more likely to do this in case they are accused of not warning the public if anything went wrong." |