Boys’ names taken off sex offenders’ list after legal battle

TWO schoolboys yesterday won a legal battle to have their names taken off the sex offenders register after the High Court ruled their human rights had been breached.

One 15-year-old youth from Co Durham in England had admitted ''pinging bra straps and touching girls on the bottom playfully'' at school, and a second 15-year-old confessed to putting his hand up a girl's skirt and pinching her while standing on a platform at New Cross Gate station, in south-east London.

The boy from Co Durham described as R, and U from the London area ended up on the sex offenders register as a result of the system of reprimands and warnings introduced under the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act.