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Article: Nine sex offenders missing overseas.
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2007
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BY DAVID BRUCE CHIEF CRIME REPORTER
NINE sex offenders missing from West Yorkshire have fled abroad, it has been revealed.
The nine were among 11 perverts in the area who disappeared off the radar.
A loophole allowed them to give only vague addresses when signing the sex offenders register.
Last weekend it emerged that the oversight by the bungling Home Office has allowed hundreds of criminals to disappear - leaving police with a huge task to track them down.
West Yorkshire's new Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison confirmed that nine of missing perverts have moved abroad.
He said: "The 11 broke the terms of their ...