The order means O’Neill, who has admitted an interest in sadomasochism and used to visit fetish clubs, must give police 24 hours’ notice before having sex with any new partner.
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John O’Neill is due to appear in court today to have the order lifted, while North Yorkshire Police will apply to the district judge sitting at York Magistrates’ Court to make the order permanent.
Mr O’Neill’s interim order will continue until his next apperearance in court on September 22.
Until that date an interim order remains in place.
Representing himself in court, Mr O’Neill said the notes made by the health professionals were largely inaccurate and said they were “thematically correct” but the “specifics have got lost”.
Asked if the judge’s comments gave him hope of starting a relationship, he said: “My main concern is I’m homeless, I can not work, I can not claim benefits, I need to get back into society somehow”.
We will work with the courts to agree suitable prohibitions that will protect the public from the risk Mr O’Neill poses.
The court heard he also told the nurse that he had been preoccupied by thoughts of killing himself and others and found those thoughts soothing.
He is now living rough on the outskirts of York, sleeping in a tent.
He was made subject to an interim SRO, with a number of conditions attached, after the judge at the retrial said he still considered him to be “a very risky individual”.
He said he had no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket”.
Holmes said: “He said he had been sexually violent towards girlfriends and he was not sure whether they consented”.
“He stopped asking girlfriends if they consented to sex with him”.
He also recorded him saying: “I need them to be scared or I don’t respond” and “I find it hard to climax”.
Mr O’Neil, who is representing himself at the hearing, claims his discussions with doctors and nurses about sad-masochism brought up at the rape trial have been misunderstood. The court also heard that his GP, Dr Miriam Hodgson, had made notes in which she recorded that his “sex life has become violent …”
She left the room and when she returned insisted on keeping the door open.
He said he was homeless four years ago, but “thought all of [those problems] were behind me”.
These include having to hand over the PIN for his mobile phone to police, and not to use internet-connected devices which can not be later checked by officers.
In an interview with the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show, O’Neill said he was “amazed” the SRO was served against him and claimed “90% of the population” could face one because the type of acts monitored include scratching and biting during consensual sex.
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He has previously said he had no prospect of forming a relationship under the terms of the sex ban order.
