Schoolboy hears decision on 'sex offender' challenge

A British schoolboy who was placed on the sex offender register after admitting to “smacking girls’ bottoms and pinching bra straps” was today learning whether he has won a High Court challenge over the blacklisting of unconvicted juvenile offenders.

Two judges heard during a recent hearing that the boy, who also confessed to touching two girls on the breast area outside their jumpers, had lost all his friends and become suicidal after being placed on the register.