Paedophile changed name 20 times to cover up convictions

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A sex offender exploited a legal loophole to change his name as many as 20 times to hide his convictions.

Jason Brown, a 50-year-old convicted sex offender described as “a danger to women and children”, adopted several aliases to mask his criminality as he formed new relationships with unsuspecting partners.
The former fireman was said to have travelled around the country where he befriended women and children before adopting a new alias once he was caught.

The disclosure has prompted fresh demands for the Government to change the law as hundreds of sex offenders are set to be freed from jail from October under <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/AFe7D/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/15/paedophiles-avoid-jail-under-labours-sentencing-law-change/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Labour’s early release scheme.

They are calling on ministers to close a loophole so that the onus is no longer solely on offenders to tell police when they have changed their names.

Emily Konstantas, founder of the Safeguarding Alliance, told the Daily Mail the case illustrated the ease with which offenders were able to change their identities to fool the public.

Full article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/17/paedophile-changed-name-20-times-to-cover-up-convictions/
And also at https://archive.is/AFe7D

I was alerted to this mad situation by this araticle
https://www.hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits-radio-70s/uk/news/government-considers-closing-loophole-that-lets-sex-offenders-hide-true-identity

There was an item on Woman’s Hour today about a campaign to prevent sex offenders changing their name

Yes its in the article.

The problem is there is no centralised database of people, so births, deaths and deed polls are never married up in any way which enables this.

As a police officer I dealt with a guy who I uncovered at least 23 identities for and who was hiding multiple convictions because his CRBs were always clear.

He had indecent images of children on his laptop and was a trainee social worker at the time. There were even more complexities to it involving international enquiries, and I warned his offender manager that he would scarper post conviction because he had access to multiple passports which I hadn't managed to find and seize, and guess what - he disappeared. Still not been seen as far as I know and it's been a good 15 years.

Apologies. Either I misread the article or there is another article.

No group of campaigners are named but only the Safeguarding Alliance which is a "professional" company I think.

Sorry for being sorry. The Safeguarding Alliance does host the campaign Della's Law.

And today or rather yesterday 18th, the Government said they intended to make this law.

https://www.thesafeguardingalliance.org.uk/sex-offender-name-change-ban/