The UK legislation allows the UK to prevent the travel of known football hooligans to foreign countries.
Gary Glitter aka Paul Gadd an internationaly known and convicted pedophile cannot be confined to the UK however due to the legislation as it stands.
Neither can he be tagged, jailed or stopped from approaching children in the immediate future:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4566821.eceBritain bans fox hunting, but you can still hunt the fox, it has a sex offenders register which can not be policed until after a breach has occured and someone fails to turn up for their
annual registration, where they are and what they are doing for the other 364 days of the year.......who knows? In the City of York (for example), it is still a by-law that a Scotsman can be shot with a bow and arrow from the city walls and on the last Sunday of every month a man can beat his wife on a street called Whipmawhopma Gate without prosecution
What on earth are the legislators doing ? - Instead of "Knee Jerk" legislation, create legislation which is thought through thoroughly, examine the existing legislature and update/delete/create what is really needed AND practicle AND create legislation which protects the public they have been put there to serve!
