A MISSING sex offender has handed himself in to police after seeing an appeal on the Lancashire Telegraph website.
Smith was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 2011. He was given a 12 months suspended sentence, placed on a 12 months drug rehabilitation programme and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
After the appeal Smith handed himself into a police station in Leeds at around 8pm on Wednesday.
He is now in custody in Burnley where he is under arrest in connection with failure to comply with notification requirements.
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