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THERESA May has vowed Britain won’t half out’ Brexitaccept a ‘half in, speech that is in a landmark likely to have long-lasting effects on Gibraltar and all expats in Spain. The Prime Minister issued 12-point plan to take Britaina out of the EU, ing Street looking with Downto scrap EU single market and current customs union access. In the biggest month tenure,speech of her sixclear, what I amshe said: “To be proposing cannot mean membership of the single market.” She added Britain would no longer give ‘huge EU, however she sums’ to the Parliament will conceded that vote on the deal. have the final Maintaining the common travel area between the United Kingdom and EXCLUSIVE Ireland is also the Republic of By Gabrielle a priority during Pickard-Whitehead the Brexit negotiations. and Laurence
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He then disseminated the sick material on paedophile forums on the dark web around the world. Emily Konstantas, CEO of The Safeguarding Alliance, applauded the Olive Press for highlighting the issue: “The Ben Lewis case as revealed by the Olive Press highlights this loophole and as shocking as this is, it is nothing new and unfortunately represents just the tip of the iceberg as to the magnitude of this problem.” She warned: “Whilst the status quo remains in situ this significant and very dangerous safeguarding loophole will continue to pose a threat, not just to UK Nationals, but to the rest of the world, putting children and those most vulnerable at risk,” she warned. “There are potentially hundreds - if not thousands - of known sex offenders slipping under the radar in the UK to seek work abroad where they can continue to abuse
children,” she continued. “This loophole is arguREGISTRO CENTRAL DE DELINCUENTES SEXUALES ably the biggest safeguarding scandal the world has ever seen and there is an opportunity for Spain to lead the Gerente Territorial en ZARAGOZA way in tackling it at a CERTIFICA: global level,” she said. de Delincuentes Sexuales, la Base de Datos del Registro Central Que, en el día de la fecha, consultada a: Her charity wants Spain NO CONSTA información penal relativa 22807454 nº to introduce the need to D./Dª BEN DAVID ROSE con Pasaporte present an original birth n 26 de febrero, relativa a la organizació Marco 2009/315/JAI del Consejo de Conforme a lo dispuesto en la Decisión entre los Estados miembros, n de los registros de antecedentes penales certificate alongside y al contenido del intercambio de informació caso, las condenas impuestas por otros el presente certificado incluye, en su hayan sido notificadas, sin tratándose de ciudadanos españoles, condenas tales que en términos en los mismos a passport and crimiEstados miembros de la Unión Europea, de condena y los tipos delictivos n entre los tipos delictivos del Estado que exista necesariamente una equiparació nal record checks that nacionales. expedición. su de del titular interesado/a en la fecha would allow potential El presente certificado refleja la situación employers to unearth a Zaragoza a 29 de agosto de 2017 change of identity. “It’s a simple way to provide that extra check,” she insisted. “The severity and danger this loopDANGER: Lewis got teaching hole presents to the whole world post, with help of ‘fake’ cannot be underestimated.” papers An extensive report by The Safeguarding Alliance is being used to lobby the UK parliament for a le- as the offender already has the propensity to commit very serious gal change in the management of Documento firmado electrónicamente crimes,” states the report, seen by registered sex offenders. It explains how the current system the Olive Press. relies on the registered sex offend- Through extensive research and er to notify the police with details case law The Safeguarding Alliof any name change, alongside any ance has identified that offenders change of address and passport are not notifying as required and are continuing to abuse children information. “Currently the onus lies solely by changing their names and obwith the offender and although it fuscating their identities as seen is an offence to fail to notify, one through the case of Ben Lewis/ could argue this is not a deterrent Rose absconding overseas to continue to abuse. ZYs-CcBb Verificación SD:Lzou-Jz3F-a a.gob.es Código Seguro de xyz0123456789-$: to en https://sede.mjustici VWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw Puede verificar este documen ación: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU Código Seguro de Verific del res caracte de Juego
his identity and find work as a teacher in several Madrid schools where he was arrested for abusing at least 36 children. We reported how Ben Lewis, 31, had changed his name by deed poll, applied for a new British passport, and dodged criminal record checks despite being on the UK’s sex offenders register. Police in Spain issued a statement last week describing Lewis sserp evilo anopetsE ni saw ohw MP eht sun
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THE UK’s leading child protection group is calling on authorities to tighten the recruitment process of English teachers abroad. The plea by The Safeguarding Alliance aims to protect the country against a British legal loophole that has allowed potentially hundreds of British paedophiles to find work abroad including in Spain. The campaign follows an investigation by the Olive Press that revealed how easy it was for a convicted UK sex offender to change
The deed poLl loophole IN the United Kingdom a person does not need to follow an official process to start using a new name, but they require a ‘deed poll’ to apply for or to change official documents such as a new passport. This can be done simply and easily online for little or no cost in a process that takes no longer than 15 minutes to process and can even be completed from a prison cell. Under section 84 of the Sexual Offences Act of 2003, an offender must report a name change within three working days to the police,
and failure to so is a criminal offence which could result in a term not exceeding five years imprisonment. However, evidence demonstrates that not every registered sex offender will act with honesty and report a change of name as required. The Safeguarding Alliance discovered through Freedom of Information requests to 16 of the UK’s 46 police forces that 913 people with sex offence convictions had gone missing after changing their names without informing the police.
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“As a result, the effectiveness of important legislation, the Sex Offenders Register, the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, the DBS are undermined and effectively rendered redundant,” it states. “The case of Ben Lewis/Rose highlights why Spain should be aware of this very serious safeguarding loophole and should pioneer an international movement to protect its children from those abusers who slip under the radar using the name change loophole,” Konstantas added. Opinion Page 6