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Re: Were the police right to pay a paedophile £10,000 for information?
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It was also been pointed out in a TV discussion that the man who was paid this money has served his sentence (and thus paid his debt to society) for his part in drugging and raping an underage girl.
Should this make any difference?
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Yes and this is a big difference to paying someone off and as part of the deal not prosecuting or seeking the maximum sentence.
Effectively this man should now be treated as a normal part of society (although with appropriate checks and warnings). If it is felt the best way to arrest and prosecute others is to make a payment, how is this different to putting up a reward? Probably a lot cheaper than all the "normal" police work that would have been needed without that information.
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