An opposition MP has called for schools to be directly informed when sex offenders are released from prison.

Robin Tucker, the Shadow Minister of Youth and Family Services, called for a “procedural gap” to be addressed after the release of Kevin Leon Goater.

Goater, 66, was released last Thursday, having served a little more than two years of a six-year sentence after he admitted having unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl who was under the age of 14.