How can you spot a paedophile?

One of the most chilling aspects of the Suffolk-based internet paedophile case is   that Timothy Cox looks so normal. In fact, he seems a nice looking, ordinary guy from this pic. As we know, he was an evil, cunning and vile abuser of children who distributed tens of thousands of indecent images of children, some of them just babies. And I wonder about those 31 children now in care...
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Payback time for Brown’s Labour foes

It’s a damning start for Gordon Brown’s premiership. Has any leading politician been mauled so publicly by his own members a week before becoming Prime Minister? In tomorrow’s Channel 4 documentary, The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair, former ministers Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn, Estelle Morris and Clare Short, as well as key staff and contacts, speak more frankly than ever...
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The missing – Alex Mexisville

I learnt about Alex Mexisville after spotting a poster of him, along with other missing young people, while waiting to catch my return flight home from Thessoloniki Airport yesterday. Among them was a poster of Madeleine McCann. I saw no similar posters when I departed from the UK – surely this is an ideal place to display them, as well as at railway and bus stations. Last February,...
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