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| Paedophile loses bank rule challenge | Paedophile loses bank rule challenge |
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| A convicted paedophile has lost a legal challenge against rules requiring him to disclose bank details to police. | A convicted paedophile has lost a legal challenge against rules requiring him to disclose bank details to police. |
| The man jailed for child sex offences claimed the rules breached his right to a private life and were not necessary. | The man jailed for child sex offences claimed the rules breached his right to a private life and were not necessary. |
| The recently-introduced measures require convicted sex offenders to reveal bank accounts and credit cards. | The recently-introduced measures require convicted sex offenders to reveal bank accounts and credit cards. |
| But rejecting the challenge, the High Court said the rules were a "very valuable" practical and proportionate way of protecting potential victims. | |
| The judges, Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice Hickinbottom, said: "We do not consider that the means employed are in any way inappropriate or disproportionate. | |
| "They are plainly a practical and proportionate means of providing further protection to prevent other persons becoming potential victims of those on the Sexual Offences Register. | |
| "In reaching that judgement we have taken into account the fact that no power is given to access the accounts and that the information provided by an offender will be securely held." | |
| Christopher Prothero, of Birmingham, was convicted in 2007 of nine counts of indecent assault and indecency with a child and jailed for four and a half years. | |
| After his release in 2010, he struggled to get a job and became self-employed. He told the court that he had complied with all of his licence conditions, such as a requirement to tell the police where he was living. | |
| In 2012, following an important Supreme Court ruling, the Home Secretary changed the rules governing the notification scheme. She introduced a right of appeal - but also ordered offenders to hand over bank account details, bringing the system in line with that in Scotland. | |
| Prothero challenged the order to hand over details of his two bank accounts, saying that it was an invasion of his privacy and he was concerned the information may get into the wrong hands or be used by the authorities for another purpose. |