She says emphasis should be placed on trying to understand and treat the psychological disorder behind paedophile crime.

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The Home Office says these powers are needed to help the police and intelligence services fight organised crime, terrorist networks and paedophile rings.

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Well in essence when little Sarah, eight year old Sarah Payne was abducted and murdered in July of 2000, by a known local paedophile with a terrible record for a similar crime which fortunately in that case didn't end in murder, we set about, if you like, campaigning for some changes in the law that would tighten up the law against paedophiles, against predatory, repetitive child sex abusers.

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