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Move to deport paedophile condemned
Victim support groups have attacked Australian authorities for deciding to deport a British paedophile, regarded as one of the country's worst child abusers.

UK-born Robert Excell, 66, who moved to Australia when he was ten, will be flown back to Britain as soon as he has the necessary travel documents - probably within days.

Excell, who has spent has spent 37 years in an Australian jail for a string of sex attacks on boys, will be met on arrival by Special Branch officers. He will be forced to sign the sex offenders register, but after that he will be free.

However, he could be placed under surveillance or made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) to prevent him from being alone with children or from getting close to a school playground.

Western Australia's attorney general Jim McGinty defended the decision to release Excell, despite admitting that he posed an unacceptable risk to children in his state. The decision was made in part, he said, because of Excell's poor health and age, and support from his wife.

But the move was widely condemned by campaigners in Britain, who said Excell should never be freed.

Shy Keenan, founder of Phoenix Survivors, a support group for the victims of child sexual abuse, said: "We want assurances from the new Home Secretary Charles Clarke. We want to know the exact legal process they will use to place a man with a spent Australian conviction, on the sex offenders register, we want to know if he will be monitored as much as he clearly needs to be."

Norman Brennan, director of the Victims of Crime Trust, said: "This individual poses a maximum danger to children and has committed crime after crime after crime of the worst degrading types of paedophilia.

"It's clear as night follows day as long as this individual's got blood running through his veins he poses a danger. The most appropriate sentence for him is to remain in Western Australia."

Tink Palmer, director of the Stop It Now! campaign against child abuse, described the decision to deport Excell as "ethically wrong".

Cheers Australia,,, they only freed him because he agreed to be deported.

Why do we have to have him back

Why not chemicaly or physicaly castrate him

Why cant we di the same with our suspected terroist and shove them back to their country of origin.

Britain now has the MUG sticker stamped firmly on it

He was never an Australian citizen, so it is the UK's problem. It is a wonder the Australian govt. didn't stick him on a boat 30yrs ago to serve out his time here. He is British, end of issue.
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Calrissian: Citizen of the European Union

What newspaper do you normally buy?

none ... next unrelated to topic question please

Are you retarded?

your so sad mate

Thats *you're* not your.

whatever ,, dosent make you less sad ,, I must thank you for making me laugh ,,

I bet you are hoping Tony Blair's new potential 'reforms' to the laws regarding mental health, don't actually happen.

yawn

Rest your weary head on this mate

I thought having a criminal record was a pre-requisite of being an Australian citizen or doesn't that rule apply anymore?

as for being a citizen of the European Union, I'd rather be a citizen of Europe than of a humongous cross-political quango. But British first, born and bred, me (even if my parents weren't)

I'm not sure, but I did laugh when Prince Phil asked if they still threw spears at each other!