RECORD numbers of sex offenders are changing their names to keep their crimes hidden, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

Paedophiles and rapists are creating new identities to stop neighbours and workmates uncovering their secret past.

More than 100 registered offenders have now officially switched to an assumed moniker – with the majority of those doing it in the last three years.

Reported by the Daily Record. You can read the full story here. 

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.