That's the view, as told to readers of The Daily Telegraph, of Sheila Lawlor, director of Politeia, a London-based think-tank. To which there is little to add. Except perhaps to suggest that she spends less time in her think-tank and more time in a get-out-and-see-what-life-is-like tank.
Some men who breached notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 have appeared on Crimestoppers' "most wanted" web site.
The Sun headlined its coverage "Pervhunt.com". A Popbitch reader found no-one had registered that web address. So the reader grabbed it and - here's the joke - arranged it so all the pervhunt web traffic arrived at The Sun's own page three rookies web site. Media Guardian and various others carried the story. Trouble is, if you put www.pervhunt.com into a web browser, it takes you directly to the Crimestoppers site. Perhaps the Popbitch reader sold it. Or maybe the story was bunkum in the first place.
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