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  • J,M wrote: »
    To all, please accept the fact that he is a registered sex offender.

    I,m off for a pint.

    Sorry, why should we? If you know through legitimate, innocent means such as his crimes being in the local press or a victim being someone you know personally, then why would you have a problem telling us that?

    If you know through gossip or underhand means, the information isn't so reliable and the advice maybe different.
  • I think OP was hoping for something more along the lines of:
    latest?cb=20110105212245

    Sadly what they got were pragmatic people. Sex Offenders have a right to a home....
  • seashore22
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    J,M wrote: »
    To all, please accept the fact that he is a registered sex offender.

    I,m off for a pint.

    Yeah, sure we will.

    My attitude to forums is healthy scepticism. We don't know you from Adam and have no obligation to believe anything you say.

    Not to mention the fact that the sex offenders register has a huge spectrum of offenders listed on it. Some I would worry about, others not so much.

    I don't like child abusers or rapists, but I don't like witch hunts either.
  • unforeseen
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    You do realise that the range of offences to get on that register is quite wide? If he is on the register, only hearsay so far, then he could be on it for something that was originally included in the 97 act but removed from the 2003 act. Removal in that situation is up to the person to apply.

    Simple voyeurism can get you on there

    OP you have absolutely no evidence. Only scuttlebut. I suggest you do nothing unless/until you get positive proof and even then there is very little you can do apart from issue a S21.
  • Marvel1
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    J,M wrote: »
    To all, please accept the fact that he is a registered sex offender.

    To yourself, please accept you have given him a fixed term of 6 or 12 months and cannot be gone before then, as a landlord you should know this already ans cannot simply ask to leave tut tut.
  • G_M
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    cjdavies wrote: »
    To yourself, please accept you have given him a fixed term of 6 or 12 months and cannot be gone before then, as a landlord you should know this already ans cannot simply ask to leave tut tut.
    To be fair, we don't know that. OP may have granted a 3 month fixed term. Or a Contractual Periodic. Or whatever.

    But as he's gone down the pub rather than answer the relevant questions (because he didn't get the immediate positive replies he wanted?), we don't know so can't advise.

    Just hope he IS down the pub and not harassing a paediatrician........
  • ripplyuk
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    I must be the only one who feels differently here. It's a sex offender! I'd want him out using whatever means necessary. And I wouldn't care which particular sex offence it is. The earlier post quotes 'simple voyeurism' as if it's something harmless.

    OP, unfortunately if you've given this tenant a fixed term, I don't know of any (legal) means of removing him quickly. Since it's now local gossip, I would definitely make sure you have adequate home insurance.
  • unforeseen
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    ripplyuk wrote: »
    I must be the only one who feels differently here. It's a sex offender! I'd want him out using whatever means necessary. And I wouldn't care which particular sex offence it is. The earlier post quotes 'simple voyeurism' as if it's something harmless.
    Fair enough. How about consensual sex with your sister? Will probably get you on the register for longer than voyeurism. It doesn't affect anybody else. The chances of going on to bigger and better sexual offences is nil.
  • ripplyuk
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    unforeseen wrote: »
    Fair enough. How about consensual sex with your sister? Doesn't affect anybody else. The chances of going on to bigger and better sexual offences is nil.

    Do you mean statutory rape? In that case, I still would want him out. He's still a sex offender.
  • unforeseen
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    edited 6 October 2017 at 6:37PM
    ripplyuk wrote: »
    Do you mean statutory rape? In that case, I still would want him out. He's still a sex offender.

    No I didn't mean that. Consensual sex with a relative is a specific offence in the 2003 act.

    Why do you assume that the other party is a minor? Something from your childhood? I think that says a lot about your thought processes that you equated it with sex with a minor.
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