Offenders have had the right to apply for a review after 15 years on the register since 2012. But now Laura Stewart, who was abused as a child, is petitioning MPs to change the law after she discovered her abuser had been removed from the register 21 years after his conviction.
Three-quarters of sex offenders who applied to be removed from the sex offenders register last year in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had their requests approved, according to new figures exclusively obtained by Sky News.Offenders have had the right to apply for a review after 15 years on the register since 2012.
"But that night - he touched me for the first time. And that continued and progressively got more and more over the course of five and a half to six years.Her abuser was jailed in 2002 thanks to the evidence she gave in court - and sentenced to life on the sex offenders register.The discovery made her feel sick.
Laura only discovered what had happened after she saw her abuser in the local area and contacted Dorset Police herself. Instead, she promised to investigate the creation of a British Bill of Rights, to assert"that it is parliament that makes our laws, not the courts".Mrs May also claimed the"bar" for removal from the sex offenders' register would be"deliberately set…as high as possible".
The highest numbers were for the Metropolitan Police, the largest force in the country - 136 applied for removal last year and 127 were approved - an approval rate of 93%.
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