Of those, 109 were convicted killers, 81 were rapists, and “one subject was convicted of both types of offences”. EU member states were only alerted to the problem last autumn after this newspaper published incriminating minutes of a meeting at the Criminal Records Office. “You may be aware through UK media coverage earlier this year of a number of notifications not sent to EU member states since [European criminal records information system] was implemented in April 2012,” read the letter to member states from the criminal records office. The UK criminal records office said a further 7,100 notifications had been made in the last two weeks. The individuals relating to the data have all faced justice in the UK and will have received the appropriate sentence.”

Source: The Guardian March 02, 2021 12:14 UTC