More Than 100 Sex Attackers Removed from Register

By Sonia Elks
The Times
December 22, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3955923.ece

Sonia Elks

 More than 100 convicted sex attackers ordered to sign the sex offenders  register for life have been removed from the list this year after a human  rights court ruling.

 Paedophiles and rapists were among those who successfully applied to have  their names removed, according to a Sun on Sunday  investigation.

 It found that 108 people previously ordered to remain on the register for life  were taken off this year. They included a man convicted of raping a girl  under 13, another jailed for burglary with intent to commit rape and a  criminal convicted of seven offences of indecent assault on