In Today's Papers

By Amy Taylor, Clare Jerrom and Alex Dobson. 
US police trace more Britons who buy child porn
US investigators have sent British police a list of thousands more Britons who are suspected of paying to look at child pornography sites, as this country's largest investigation into the crime is close to breaking point.
The new list of suspects is believed to be far longer than the 7,272 names received last year, which are being investigated by Operation Ore.
Police said it will take "years and years" to clear the backlog of names from the first list before they can start on the new suspects.

Source:- The Times Friday 22 August page 2
Beggars face jail as addict loses case
Beggars throughout England and Wales could be jailed if they ask for money after one was told that he could be jailed if he continued to beg in Manchester.
Manchester Council won  a two-year civil injunction banning Leonard Hockey, a heroin and crack cocaine addict, from begging in the city centre in the first case of its kind.
Birmingham now plans similar action and other authorities, including Westminster and Oxford said they are likely to follow.
Source:- The Times Friday 22 August page 5
The mystery picture
A third schoolgirl has claimed that she saw an obscene picture of a child on Soham detective Brian Stevens' computer, but that this evidence was ignored.
Stevens was cleared on Wednesday of child porn charges and sexually assaulting two girls.
The third girl, aged 17, said he claimed the image was on his screen as a part of his work, but police are not allowed to have such images at home.
Her allegations go against Stevens’ defence that he did not know any porn was on his computer.
Source:- Daily Mail Friday 22 August page 5
The £100,000 detention
A failed asylum seeker is suing the Home Office for £10,000 because he was held in a detention centre while he fought against an order for his deportation.
Obrou Kakou said he was illegally placed in the centre for 10 months because the deportation order, which was later lifted, was not made by a court.
Kakou, who is from the Ivory Coast and speaks French, also claims that the Home Office failed to adequately explain the reason for his detention in a language he could understand.
Source:- Daily Mail Friday 22 August page 27
Child case marine in the UK
The former U.S marine accused of abducting a 12-year-old girl he met on the internet was extradited to Britain last night.
Toby Studabaker, aged 31, faces charges of child abduction and inciting a child to an act of gross indecency. He is due to appear in court today.
Source:- Daily Mail Friday 22 August page 37
Payout for woman's 10 years in hospital
A woman with severe learning difficulties spent 10 years in hospital unnecessarily because of a string of incorrect actions by her local authority, the local government ombudsman ruled yesterday.
Wakefield metropolitan district council were ordered to pay £20,000 to the woman's aunt after she complained that it failed to keep her informed of what was happening to her niece over the years.
An ombudsman found the council guilty of "maladministration causing injustice" to both the woman involved and her aunt.
Source:- The Guardian Friday 22 August page 10
Scottish newspapers
Child porn on increase
The number of websites containing child porn has almost doubled over the past year, according to a report yesterday.
Reports to the Internet Watch Foundation, which monitors websites containing child pornography were up by 64 per cent.
Internet paedophiles are also increasingly adopting counter-intelligence techniques to protect themselves from being traced, according to the annual National Criminal Intelligence Service UK Threat Assessment.
Source:- Daily Record Friday 22 August page 10
Murdered Jodi’s boyfriend due back at school
The boyfriend of murdered schoolgirl Jodi Jones is expected to return to school today.
Luke Mitchell had been asked to stay away from St David’s RC High School in Dalkeith, Midlothian, when term began earlier this week. Education officials excluded him for his “well-being and safety”.

His family threatened to take legal action if he was not reinstated at school today, and last night it was confirmed that the 15-year-old would be returning to school.
Source:- Daily Record Friday 22 August page 11
Sheriff: You had right to belt boy
A man who beat a 13-year-old boy with a leather belt after he refused to go to school, was cleared of assault yesterday.
Angus Mackie admitted delivering “two or three blows”, but told Stirling sheriff court he had been at his wits’ end. The boy had been taking drugs, playing truant and stealing cars.
The case was reported to the police after a social worker identified faint red weals on the boy’s legs.
Sheriff Robert Younger ruled that the beating, partly cushioned by a duvet, was “reasonable chastisement” following four days of legal argument.
Source:- Daily Record Friday 22 August page 11
Heroin trade shame
Scotland has been branded one of the top spots for heroin trafficking in the UK.
Britain’s leading crime fighting agency claimed many Scottish gangs have set up links with suppliers in the Netherlands to flood Scotland’s streets with the drug.
A National Criminal Intelligence Service report said the key players in the UK drug distribution are based in Scotland, London and Merseyside.
Experts have also singled out Glasgow as a “significant regional hub” for Class A drug distribution.
Source:- Daily Record Friday 22 August page 25
Find Them
Holidaymakers from south Wales are being encouraged to help in the search for an eight-month-old baby, who was abducted by his parents from social services care.
The couple are believed to have fled with the child to France, and police are concerned about the baby boy’s welfare, as his father Gerald Baker, has several convictions for sex offences.
The baby was picked up for a routine unsupervised contact visit on Monday this week, by his mother but was not returned to social services in Ebbw Vale. Police are asking that local people, who may be on holiday in France, keep a look out for the couple.
Source:- South Wales Echo Wednesday 21 August page 1
Life expectancy shorter for Merthyr women
Women in Merthyr Tydfil are destined to lead shorter lives than their contemporaries in the rest of the UK.
Life expectancy for women in the area currently stands at 77.6 only slightly up on 10 years ago when it was 77.3, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Health experts say social factors like poverty, deprivation, poor diet and high levels of smoking and alcoholism contribute to the shortened life expectancy.
Source:- Western Mail Friday 22 August page 2
Pensioners get day out thanks to funeral home
Older residents of a nursing home were given a trip to the seaside in a funeral car after their minibus was vandalised.
Six older people from the Baybridge Nursing Home in Cardiff were treated to the day out after the manager of the James Summers and Son, funeral home heard of their plight and offered the use of the firm’s fleet of cars
Transport charity, Vest based in Cardiff recently had all of their 11 minibuses damaged by vandals and many older and disabled people in the area had trips cancelled as a result.
Source:- Western Mail Friday 22 august page 11