Anger over beast's visits

Published 3 Feb 2010 14:00

A SEX offender fighting deportation has been spotted regularly in a Clydebank estate, sparking fury from an angry resident.

Jamaican national Courtney Burry, 43, was jailed for four years for indecently assaulting a nine-year-old girl and found guilty on two counts of indecency against a woman by a court in 1996.

On his release in 1998 he fought a deportation order to send him back to the Caribbean and he moved to Dumbarton in 2000, and has remarried and had children.

Various attempts to send him back to Jamaica have failed and in 2008 three appeal judges ruled Burry - who says that in his home country the stigma attached to paedophiles would put his life at risk - could continue to fight the deportation order.

But a worried Clydebank resident wants to warn residents about Burry's background after seeing him in the Radnor Park area on numerous occasions in the past three months.

The resident, who asked not to be named, was alarmed that Burry may be living in a neighbourhood within yards of a school, but the Post understands Burry still resides in Dumbarton and is only visiting in Clydebank.

The concerned man said: "Burry shouldn't even be near this area but for the last two to three months he's been coming in all the time.

"He's been up to all sorts in the past yet he lives off benefits while he waits for his appeal to come to court - it's a joke."

A Home Office spokeswoman confirmed Burry's appeal against his deportation is ongoing.

Meanwhile, Strathclyde Police said it could not comment on individual cases but confirmed that public safety is its number one priority when dealing with sex offenders in the community.

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