Ex-offenders win right to review of life on sex offenders register
Applicant successful before the Supreme Court
Campaigners have welcomed a Supreme Court judgment declaring that individuals should not be kept on the Sex Offenders Register for life without the possibility of review.The ruling follows a case brought by two convicted sex offenders, one of whom was only eleven when he raped another child. Until now, he had been expected to stay on the Sex Offenders Register for the rest of his life.
The judges did not dispute that some offenders should be kept on the register for life, but said that it was wrong to expect this to happen with no possibility of review in individual cases.
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