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Sex offenders register

April 2024

  • There are increasing concerns over the use of AI in creating deepfakes and sex abuse images.

    Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case

    The decision could set a precedent for future monitoring of people convicted of indecent image offences

June 2023

  • ‘My mum still struggles to say her name’ … Claire (top) and Lauren with a photo of Collette.

    ‘We knew a bad man had taken her’: the murder of Collette Gallacher – and her sisters’ fight for justice

    After serving his sentence, Collette’s killer changed his name, making it very difficult to trace him. Her sisters Lauren and Claire describe the appalling toll of his crime and their campaign to ensure sex offenders can’t so easily assume a new identity

March 2023

  • Libby Squire and her mum Lisa.

    Killer exposed himself to Libby Squire weeks before murder, mother believes

    Mother of murdered Hull student says incidents should be treated as red flags for more serious sex offences

August 2022

  • Prisoner in cell

    I have spent 25 years treating serious sexual offenders – this is what I’ve learned

    Rebecca Myers
    Sexual offenders can be deceitful and cruel. But they may also be ashamed and desperate to change. Helping them is the only way to prevent more victims, says forensic psychologist Rebecca Myers

July 2022

  • Civilians from Ukraine arriving in Krakow in March.

    Ten UK sex offenders travelled to Poland after Ukraine invasion, says NCA

    Ten said they were providing aid, did not inform police of their intent to travel and were asked to leave

August 2021

  • Cracks appear in a front door behind a brass knocker.

    Today in Focus
    The knock: the families torn apart by an arrest over child abuse images

    When the police came to Emma’s door on a Sunday evening, she could never have imagined that her ex-husband would be arrested for downloading indecent images of children. What happens to the families whose lives ‘the knock’ turns upside down?

July 2021

  • Brass door knocker on front door, close-up<br>The Knock. Do not use. For Weekend magazine Photomontage by GNM Imaging/GETTY

    Rights and freedom
    The knock that tears families apart: ‘They were at the door, telling me he had accessed indecent images of children’

    Every month in the UK, hundreds of homes are visited by police officers dropping a bombshell: someone has been viewing images of child abuse. What happens to the families left behind?

June 2021

  • Two hands holding umbrella over child

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    Should I let my son see a relative who is on the sex offender register?

    Your instincts to avoid this man are spot on, says Annalisa Barbieri. But why does your husband feel caught in the middle?

April 2021

  • Claire and Lauren Holmes on a bench installed in their sister Collette’s memory.

    End femicide
    Sisters of murdered Collette Gallacher fight for change in justice system

    The six-year-old was raped and killed 35 years ago. Now her family are campaigning to protect others from sex offenders

October 2020

  • Belinda Winder, founder of the Safer Living Foundation

    The Society interview
    Belinda Winder: 'Sexual abuse causes a tsunami of harm. This is why I want to help prevent it'

    The forensic psychology professor on why she’s working to reintegrate sex offenders back into society

August 2020

  • Programme Name: Can Sex Offenders Change? - TX: n/a - Episode: Can Sex Offenders Change? (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Becky Southworth steps into the unsettling world of sex offender rehabilitation. Becky Southworth - (C) Blakeway North - Photographer: Dan Harrison

    TV review
    Can Sex Offenders Change? review – a bleak search for answers

    Presenter Becky Southworth – herself a survivor of sexual abuse – asks whether rehabilitation is ever possible in this tough one-off documentary

March 2020

  • Lie detector test

    Lie detectors should be used to monitor sex offenders, UK study says

    Research for police argues that compulsory polygraph testing could reduce risk to the public

February 2020

  • Amanda Spielman, head of Ofsted.

    Children left at risk of abuse after failures in safeguarding

    Offences within families continued unchecked, says damning report on child protection

October 2019

  • Court of Protection

    Autism: balancing capacity and consent

    Letter: Glynis Murphy of the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent and others write of their concern about a recent ruling by the court of protection

August 2019

  • Winchester crown court

    Coach jailed for 'regime of sexual abuse' against teenage girls

    Philip Banning pleaded guilty to 18 indecent assault charges dating back to 1970s

July 2019

  • Thorny conversations … Our Church.

    Our Church review – quietly powerful parish abuse reckoning

    Marietta Kirkbride’s play about a village torn over forgiving a sex offender convincingly channels older voices

February 2019

  • Nottingham Trent University

    University launches scheme to rehabilitate sex offenders

    Controversial project aims to cut crime rate by teaching skills like cooking and building a supportive social circle

December 2018

  • Sajid Javid

    Sajid Javid defends deportation of grooming gang members

    UK home secretary says stripping offenders of British citizenship would happen only in extreme cases

September 2018

  • Man's hands using a smartphone

    The criminalisation of upskirting is good news – but it’s just a start

    Wera Hobhouse
    The law must keep up with technology and go much further to protect women and girls from sexual offences, says Wera Hobhouse, Liberal Democrat MP for Bath

August 2018

  • Merseyside police

    Merseyside police failing to monitor sex offenders, says watchdog

    ‘Seriously overstretched’ force had ‘startling’ backlog of visits, inspectors find
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