High Court to UK: Leave Sex Offenders Alone

Telegraph – Human rights laws prevented the Home Office from keeping track of sex offenders’ email addresses, a policy that could have saved the life of a teenager murdered by a man she met on Facebook.

Ministers had proposed three years ago that convicted rapists and paedophiles should have to tell police about their internet use, in order to improve monitoring after their release from jail and stop them grooming new victims.

But the plan had to be shelved following a High Court ruling that the requirements of the sex offenders register breach the European Convention on Human Rights.