Fed: Fugitive sex offender arrested on Bali - Ellison

AAP General News (Australia)
02-29-2004
Fed: Fugitive sex offender arrested on Bali - Ellison

CANBERRA, Feb 29 AAP - Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison today congratulated Indonesian
and Australian police for tracking down and arresting a fugitive Australian child sex
offender.

Senator Ellison said the man, Paul Thompson (alias Paul Spraggs and Paul Jarvis) was
arrested on Bali on Friday and deported yesterday in the company of two Australian Federal
Police (AFP) officers.

He was met on arrival in Perth last night by Western Australian police and taken into custody.

Thompson, 55, is wanted by WA authorities to serve the …