A woman who got into a relationship with a man she later found was a registered sex offender wants a change in the law to stop people like him from being allowed to legally change their name.
Julie Purvin from Warwickshire said the man she knew as Jason Brown had been “very charming” and she was horrified when she discovered his convictions.
Emily Konstantas, the Chief Executive of The Safeguarding Alliance has campaigned to have the law tightened and said: “When a person commits such an awful crime against some of society’s most innocent people, what gives them the right to be able to erase their past?”
The government said it would look at whether the law needs to be strengthened.
Purvin said she had only been with Brown for three months, but it had been a “very intense relationship from day one”.
The 54-year-old said she had met him in a bar in Stratford-upon-Avon and even her most suspicious friends thought he was…
Emily Konstantas, the Chief Executive of The Safeguarding Alliance has campaigned to have the law tightened and said: “When a person commits such an awful crime against some of society’s most innocent people, what gives them the right to be able to erase their past?”
It’s not about erasing the past but not having to keep living it or feeling you will always be your past. People change including those who commit sex offenses or are biased to believe that Emily.
Simple. The EU’s literal “right to be forgotten”. Not to say that the UK cares much about the EU though.