Criminal records is like last retribution. It ensures that the ex convict has about as much chance at getting a job as Milwall winning the World cup. Rehabilitation act says one has to drag your criminal record around for the next ten years or so. How can you be rehabilitated when you are forced to drag the past around?
I know nothing of a free criminal record check website. I am sure everyone would say they wish they had one. Yet again, British society is summed up in Channel four's Brass eye