However Thackray was placed on two years' probation and a conviction was not recorded. He will, however, be a registered sex offender. Defence barrister Stephen Byrne said his 49-year-old client relapsed into ice use following a relationship breakdown. "He has completed extensive drug rehabilitation, which he considers the catalyst for his offending," Mr Byrne said. Judge Dick noted a number of recent cases while sitting in Mackay District Court where there had been "a connection between ice and really quite deviant sexual behaviour". "It's starting to occur to me that in some people it's a trigger for really strange sexual (behaviour)," Judge Dick said, before adding, "I'm not saying this man."