Neighbour is a convicted paedophile

Phone the police, ask them, I'm not sure if they are bound to tell you or not.
If you definitely know it's him, you need to tell the other neighbours.
How would you feel if your neighbour knew and didn't tell you.

He won’t be breaching. We lived next door to someone who has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for activity with two girls under the age of 12. He served half, we only found out when our other neighbour showed us the news reports.

The police told me that because he wouldn’t ever have unsupervised access to my children there was nothing we could do. His bedroom overlooked our back garden where my children played, I felt like I couldn’t invite their friends round without notifying their parents first. In the end we moved, but the sad fact is there are many of them, and there is nothing stopping them from living in close proximity to children.

Under certain and risk assessed policies. They are also asked to keep what they learn discreet.

Then in my opinion the law is wrong! Wouldn't you rather know that a nonce is next door to you so you could keep your children safe? I know I would.

Totally understand your feelings, OP. I’d be exactly the same. These filthy, scumbag bastards are everywhere and if it was up to me they’d never be allowed back into society once convicted. Life ruining, despicable pieces of shit.

If one of those things moved in near me, they wouldn’t last the day. I think our local FB group would hear about it and they’d be put in a place where they’d never be a threat to anyone again.

Yes they’re everywhere and yes we don’t know about many (most?) of them as they’ve not been caught. But the ones we do know about, their lives should be made hell forever.

I guess it’s good you know he’s there as knowledge is power. Maybe you won’t be the only one of his face has been in the media.

Because it will risk managed by the relevant professionals. If someone does a legger they cannot be managed.

Well, partners do.
Clare's Law

Unfortunately, we are all probably living in close proximity to a paedophile and not knowing it 😔 I would check with local police if they're aware of his change of address. Hopefully he's on the sex offenders register and subject to checks.

No, they don’t have the right to know, certainly not in law.

Of course it’s vigilantes that drive them underground post conviction. There are 1000’s of sex offenders that are working, socialising and living in communities all over the UK and are risk managed on a need to know basis. Someone deciding to make an unnecessary public service announcement undoes all the risk management work and increases risk significantly, often to totally innocent parties.

They're like rodents, you're never really more than a few feet from one even if you can't see them.
I moved out of a house because our local paper had named 4 separate men on the road as convicted pedophiles to move to a lovely wee area and the bloke next door but one was a abuser of children physically as opposed to abusing them via Internet images.
Remember that you can't be too careful, remember you'd rather be an overprotective mummy than a sorry one and just crack on living life and have a nice brew and some biscuits because half term is so exhausting.

Why would it be unmanagable? The risk is already there.

It is a valid restriction put on convicted criminals can't live near a school. Can't go to shopping malls, parks places where children will be. As OP has children presumably she lives somewhere near a school. Or church, village hall places where children congregate.

It can be both.

It must be horrible to find out that a neighbour has been found guilty of possessing images of child abuse. Unfortunately most people will have someone living on their street or the next who has been accessing those kind of images and they’ll have no idea who it is. It’s was a shock for you but at least he’s now a known danger.

I’d feel sick as well OP and of course there’s nothing you can do but it’s still vile to know, especially when you have two young kids. It astonishes me that these creepy perverts have partners who stand by them. That’s sick as well knowing what they’ve been up to.

Try not worry OP, they appear to everywhere so at least you know to take a wide birth if he comes anywhere near you. I wouldn’t be able to help myself giving him the evils and a disgusted look if I walked past him.

He's a convicted paedophile, people have the right to know that and keep their children safe. I never mentioned vigilantes, I would let everyone in the street know by posting the newspaper report of him through the door, no vigilantism necessary.

Very unsettling for sure OP. I remember working with an ex-copper who said if we all knew the amount of sex offenders that lived near you at any one time, you'd move to Mars 😳 As we all should do, keep you and yours as safe as possible and remind your kids of stranger danger but other than that there's not much else you can do I'm afraid

It's not vigilantes that "drives them underground". It's the fact that it's illegal. Should we change the law so that they can all frolic around so we know who they are?

I don't get this logic at all.
It's not a choice between known and unknown - all your other neighbours could be paedophiles too!

@Unbelooth I know, but I took that poster's comment to be meaning live near where children live. I could have misinterpreted.

And all that would achieve would be making the risk unmanageable.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Both can be correct.

And it’s that stupid vigilante type behaviour that drives them underground. Given they are all around us I’d much rather know who they were!