A sex offender left the country twice – but didn’t tell Wiltshire Police.
Kamil Stanejko, 40, pleaded guilty to three notification requirement breaches when he appeared before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (9 May).
The defendant, of Bridge Street, was told to register as a sex offender for seven years after sexually assaulting a woman back in 2016.
The Polish national, who works as a lorry driver for SW Logistics, also threatened to kill his victim and physically assaulted her in a series of attacks, according to reports at the time.
Prosecutor Keith Ballinger said that Stanejko was caught re-entering the UK by Border Force officers at Gatwick Airport in November last year. He’d been to Tenerife but failed to inform his offender manager.
When police attended his home address of record, a neighbour confirmed that he had left the property – but his offender manager was not told about this change in circumstance.
Earlier this year, he again left the country and was detained by Border Force officers in March. This time he’d been re-entering the UK from Poland, his home country.
Representing himself in court, Stanejko said: “I didn’t feel emotionally stable. What I tried to do was try to make myself better emotionally. I didn’t think about informing the police about doing abroad, I realised after do to that.
“I understand what I did, it’s my mistake. If I be given the chance, I will never do that mistake again and I’m really sorry for that.”
Stanejko told that court that when he was in Poland he sought support for his mental health because when he went to his doctor in England “there was not much help”.
He added: “I wasn’t stable emotionally, I didn’t know what I was doing.”
The magistrates imposed an 18-month community order with the requirement to complete 25 rehabilitation activity days with probation. He was fined £865 and told to pay costs of £85 and a £346 surcharge.
