Summary
THEY lurked behind a veneer of middle-class respectability, hiding their crimes from the communities which trusted them. On Thursday, eight men involved in one of Scotland's worst paedophile rings were convicted in one the most heinous abuse cases in British history.
Now Lothian and Borders Police are to launch a probe into how the ringleader, Neil Strachan, slipped through the net to keep preying on children and babies despite having two previous convictions for abusing young boys and being on the sex offenders' register - and supposedly under police supervision .See the full content of this document
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How Did They Get Away with It? Paedophiles Were Free to Work with Children
The case has raised concerns that the register is ineffectual as a monitoring system and prompted calls to expand it into cyberspace, so police can monitor known offenders' online activities.
Tory MSP Bill Aitken said the fact Strachan was known to police raised huge concerns ...See the full content of this document
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