But Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne called for more information about the schemes to be made available.

He said: "The concern is that this will do nothing for the safety of children and could even lead to an increase in sex offenders."

I'd like more information as well...

Plus, what about people who, when they were 16 or so, had girlfriends/boyfriends who were still 15 and were caught? Aren't they also classified as paedophiles? 20 years later, they probably aren't into children, probably into 35 year olds...

And what sort of information is given out? Names and addresses? Will this lead to increases in lynchings?

Well not just that but people who are convicted of low level sexual offences may identified as people on the sex offenders register rather than thier crime also being published.

I'm in no way an expert on that register but several groups have stated that it covers too wide a range of offences and is unrelliable due to generalisation.

In the souh west a few years ago, the homes of paediatricians were targetted.

Morons.

I personally feel paedophiles who have sexually abused children should have forced genital mutilation. IMO there is a world of difference between someone who looks at pictures and someone who abducts children to abuse them.

The first case I remember was in Portsmouth, in the mid to late 90s.

No that was people protesting about peodophiles in one of the roughest council estates. No peadiatricians were harmed in this protest!! Though one car was torched and several people were immedialty rehoused.

The house of a peadiatrician was vandalised during the protest...

Just what is the truth? In August 2000, a female paediatrician consultant called Yvette Cloete was indeed labelled a "paedo" after a campaign by the News of the World to name and shame paedophiles in the community.

The incident took place in Newport, Gwent, not in Portsmouth (where there had been anti-paedophile protests after eight-year-old Sarah Payne was murdered) or London.

Did it coincide with the 5 people fleeing the Paulsgrove estate? I heard it on Radio Solent at the time, but I was driving, so I might have misheard that both were on the Paulsgrove estate...