GPS bracelets used to keep track of dangerous sex criminals can be easily taken off with a pair of 'normal SCISSORS'

This has raised concerns about the quality of the controversial technology since it was introduced three years ago.

There have been multiple occasions where the device has malfunctioned including signal drop outs and offenders removing the bracelet, the publication reported.

 

At the hearing on Thursday the accused’s lawyer, Erin Ramsay, suggested her client could be bailed to live at Corella Place- a facility in Ararat, Victoria designed to house sex offenders deemed too dangerous to live in the wider community.

Corrections and police argued that the man should be kept in custody. Ms Clump, Corrections Victoria’s manager of detention and supervision order operations, was called to give evidence at the hearing about the security at Corella. All 53 of Corella’s residents are required to wear two types of bracelets.

One monitors their location within the facility and the other monitors them when they go out into the community accompanied by a Corrections worker Ms Clump said, the publication reported.

Ms Ramsay said there was ‘simply no possibility’ that her client would re-offend if bailed to Corella.

The accused was convicted of murdering a Chinese exchange student while she was walking home from a train station.

The court was told that he raped a teenage girl just five months after he was released from prison on parole. He now faces three charges- two of rape and another of attempted rape against the alleged victim in March this year. He was refused bail to Corella and will appear for a committal mention at a later date, the publication reported.

A spokeswoman for Corrections Victoria told The Age that 'Victoria uses the best technology available, which is utilised in every Australian jurisdiction and internationally. Alerts are sent to relevant authorities as soon as the devices are tampered with.'