THE system works. According to Martyn Underhill, the sex offenders disclosure scheme is doing exactly what it was set up to do. As a serving police officer, he was part of the inquiry team that dealt with the Sarah Payne investigation.

Our special feature today about single mums being singled out follows the revelation that seven child offenders have been discovered to be in contact with children in Dorset. Mr Underhill says Sarah’s Law has strengthened the ability of the state to profile and monitor sex offenders. Though, as he rightly points out, predatory paedophiles will stop at nothing to find a way to get to children.

Hosting an explosion in child pornography and providing the means for sex offenders to reach their prey, the internet has a lot to answer for.

If anyone wants ideas on where to go next in squeezing the life from this sickening global industry, they need look no further than the web.