A man who has to give Yorkshire police 24 hours' notice before he has sex despite being cleared of rape is to go on hunger strike.
The single man, in his 40s, admitted to previously having an interest in sado-masochistic sex and used to visit a Fifty Shades Of Grey-style fetish club with an ex-partner, Daily Record reports.
The man is currently subject to a Sexual Risk Order which the force successfully applied for at a magistrates court.
The order, which police will ask to be made permanent at a hearing in August, includes a condition requiring him to inform police 24 hours before he has sex with a new partner.
In a statement, the man said:
"I intend to commence hunger strike in protest over the SRO to which I am subject.
"I protest that even though a jury found me unanimously not guilty, after nearly two years I still find myself being punished for a crime that never happened.I protest to being subject to an order that is unlawful in almost every syllable, is unjustified and is so extreme as to be utterly unlivable.
"Home Office guidelines clearly explain the types of behaviour that SROs are designed to prevent, and none of it applies in any way to me.
"The law has been misapplied deliberately by North Yorkshire Police out of sour grapes over being shown to be prejudicial and incompetent in their investigation of the original complaint against me." The man denies having any criminal convictions, "not even a parking ticket", when he spoke to reporters at York Magistrates' Court earlier this month.
He said at the previous hearing: "It puts an end to your life.
"I had more freedom in prison.
