Sex offender registration appeals to go ahead

[The Dragon Master]

Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales are set to be given the right to appeal against having to register with the police for life.



Home Secretary Theresa May said the government would make the minimum possible changes to comply with a 2010 Supreme Court ruling.



She said ministers were appalled by the ruling and the bar for appeals would be set as high as possible.



Sex offenders will only be able to appeal 15 years after leaving prison.



The Supreme Court ruled that denying offenders the right of appeal was incompatible with their human rights.



But Andrew Flanagan, chief executive of the NSPCC, said: Adults who sexually abuse children should stay on the offenders register for life as we can never be sure their behaviour will change.



Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the appeals system must be extremely tough in order to win the support of Labour MPs.



The depravity and the seriousness of sex offences, and the harm and damage they do to their victims, means the systems we have in place to protect the public must be paramount, she said.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12476979

 

[Crusader]

I agree that it's disgusting but it's one of those things where you can't please everyone. Some people make mistakes.. bad ones, but then never make another again but then some will. But I think it is for the greater good if they remain on the database for life.

 

[beowulf]

a friend posted this on facebook earlier today......one of her friends posted that she agreed wholeheartedly with it as she is all for 'rights'...........didnt like it when i posted that as far as im concerned the only right paedo's and rapists have is to be thrown in a room full of women armed with blunt rusty penknives.......they do a crime like that and as far as i am concerned they lose rights, not gain them...............the world is too concerned with treating them as 'victims'............no one seems to think about those that these people have wronged

 

[Rapunzel]

a friend posted this on facebook earlier today......one of her friends posted that she agreed wholeheartedly with it as she is all for 'rights'...........didnt like it when i posted that as far as im concerned the only right paedo's and rapists have is to be thrown in a room full of women armed with blunt rusty penknives.......they do a crime like that and as far as i am concerned they lose rights, not gain them...............the world is too concerned with treating them as 'victims'............no one seems to think about those that these people have wronged