Sex fiend's pagan plan

Melbourne, Australia - SEX fiend Robin Fletcher has been planning to promote pagan rituals featuring floggings and child sex in Ghana, it can be revealed.

Fletcher was writing to students and families in the West African country about his perverted sexual beliefs while he was a prisoner at Ararat Jail.

His plans to spread his Wiccan beliefs in Ghana have been thwarted by the decision to keep him in jail beyond the end of his maximum sentence.

The Herald Sun revealed yesterday that Fletcher had been refused the release he expected this week and would be subjected to tough restrictions on his movements and behaviour for at least another five years.

He remained in Ararat Jail yesterday while the unprecedented action to foil his plans prompted spirited debate.

The Government and the Adult Parole Board began planning ways to keep Fletcher locked up after six bundles of disturbing letters were found in his cell at Ararat late last year.

In letters seen by the Herald Sun, Fletcher told his followers in Ghana he was "always on the lookout for sexual partners".

"When I come to Ghana I will be looking for potential sexual partners and also wives," he wrote.

"I will be looking for people in these respects under 20 years of age."

The self-professed witch, 49, said there were "no limitations on sexual behaviour for brothers and sisters and for children in our religion".

Fletcher said in his letters that one of the precepts of his religion ensured that all girls in a household were flogged as "severely, frequently and publicly" as possible.

"Furthermore, unless there is a gag being used, the flogging will not be valid unless there are both tears and screams," he wrote.

Fletcher's depraved sexual beliefs appear to be unchanged since he was jailed 10 years ago for child prostitution, sexual penetration of a child under 16, indecent acts with a child and perverting the course of justice.

The Supreme Court was told then two 15-year-old victims had been lured into sex through the use of black magic and hypnotism, and the claim that illicit activities were pagan rituals.

Fletcher claimed in his letters to Ghana that he was going to form a company there and establish a "biodynamic agriculture" business. He would be developing a new form of cheap diesel fuel and also hoped to set up a "cow bank".

"Please understand that as well as business opportunities, I am bringing to Ghana a religion," he wrote.

"I am quite dedicated to the people of Ghana and our religion, and I wish to see both of these grow and prosper."