" Convicted sex attackers can challenge inclusion on offenders’ register"

Date: 
Dec 20 2008

It was reported in the Independent Newspaper that: "Thousands of convicted sex attackers may now be able to challenge their positions on the sex offenders register, after a landmark High Court case ruled that forcing them to remain on the list for life was a breach of their human rights."

Thus the necessity for regular testing to ensure that such offenders are in fact at risk of further offending, or, indeed no longer pose a danger to others is an obvious necessity; This testing may take the form procedures such as polygraph testing and/or penile plethysmography.

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