Tyndale: Why you won't know if you live next door to a child sex offender

Apr 24 2011 by George Tyndale, Sunday Mercury

IS there a murderer, a rapist or a child sex offender on the run from the cops in your town?

Sorry, we can’t tell you,

Because letting you have that sort of information might damage the human rights of the scumbags on the loose.

Forty-seven dangerous criminals convicted of the most serious crimes are currently unaccounted for in Britain.

They are all rated high, or very high, risk offenders who have breached the terms of their licence and should have been returned behind bars.

But the Ministry of Justice refuses to name them.

This, of course, is just the tip if an iceberg more alarming that the one that did for the unsinkable Titanic.

The group of 47, which includes two murderers, two paedophiles, a rapist and 10 robbers, represents just a fraction of those who have slipped through the net.

The most recent figures from the Ministry show that there are no fewer than 960 offenders who have simply gone missing rather than gone back to jail. Some of them have been on the run for up to 25 years.

Emergency

Official guidelines suggest that the cops should find 75 per cent of recalled prisoners classified as ‘emergency’ cases within 74 hours.

Those regarded as lesser risks should be recalled within a maximum of six days.

So not only is the long arm of the law failing to feel the collar of those who pose most risk to you and I, but we are not allowed to know who they are.

So even if a fugitive passes you in the street, or you bump trolleys in Tesco, you won’t raise the alarm because you’ll be none the wiser.

The Ministry of Justice bleats that the Government is committed to transparency. Well, we can certainly see straight through that one.

Once again the rights of the criminal are being put ahead of the rights of the law-abiding public, in particular our right to know the danger we face.

David Cameron and the Boy Wonder should stop faffing about with the ridiculous alternative vote system and pour their energy instead into righting the human rights imbalance.