A MAN required to sign the sex offenders register every year failed to do so because he forgot the date he needed to do it by.

Kevin Moore went to the police station to sign the register, which he is required to do so annually indefinitely, 11 days later than he was due to.

Clare Linehan, prosecuting, said this was the third breach of the notification requirements for the 59-year-old who has been on the register since a conviction in 2001.

She said: "On the 20th of June, officers went to his address, the PC explained he had registered late.

"They interviewed him and reported him for the offence. He said, 'I am sorry - I never meant to be late'."

In mitigation, David Howarth said Moore, of Bewdley Road, Stourport-on-Severn, simply forgot the correct date.

"The explanation given was that he was sorry, he was under the impression the date was later," he said.

Moore pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register when he appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, October 23.

District Judge NIgel Cadbury sentenced him to a six-month community order with a supervision requirement and an eight-week curfew for between 9pm and 7am to be electronically monitored.

He said: "Although this is your third breach I do not regard it as a very serious one. It wasn't as if you provided false information, or that you were trying to avoid registering or hiding from the police. It was just you forgot the date of needing to go."

Moore was also ordered to pay £85 in court costs and a £60 victim surcharge.