Home Office says paedophile will be monitored
A serial child molester recently deported to the UK from Australia will be subject to the highest level of supervision, the Home Office has said.
British-born paedophile Robert Excell is starting a secret new life in Britain after spending 37 years in prison in Australia.
Excell, 67, who was met by police at Heathrow airport when he returned to Britain on Saturday, was forced to sign the sex offenders’ register before being freed, but children’s campaigners had expressed concern that he might re-offend in Britain.
But a Home Office spokesman insisted that Excell, who has child sex convictions dating back to 1965, would be under close surveillance as a free man.
“Protecting children is the highest priority of the government and we do everything we can to ensure the public is protected from offenders where a risk can be foreseen,” said the spokesman.
Excell, who has committed another sex crime every time he has been paroled from prison before, will be monitored by officials including the police, probation officers and social workers under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements.
Australia’s decision to deport Excell on his release from prison has caused controversy in the UK.
Police officer Norman Brennan, a director of the Victims of Crime Trust, said Excell was still “every parent’s worst nightmare”, and called for him to be locked up.
