Petition Prevent sex offenders changing their legal name under which they were convicted.

A recent FOI request has proven that MORE than 800 sex offenders have changed their names to hide their crimes in the last 5 years, including 83 rapists and 126 perverts convicted of possessing or distributing child abuse images, and 88 were convicted of indecent assault and 44 of sexual assault.

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7138397/Sex-offenders-hide-and-change-their-name.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3582349/More-800-British-sex-offenders-changed-names-hide-dark-past-police-REFUSE-tell-protect-perverts-rights.html

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

66 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 66 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 13 November 2016
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