Fix for worst crimes might be a chemical

FOR TOO long, this country has treated dangerous sexual predators with kid gloves.

- JJ Anisiobi

We lecture them, rehabilitate them and then more often than not watch them walk straight back out to reoffend.

Victims' lives are destroyed, families left in pieces, and yet the debate always circles back to the so-called "human rights" of the offender. Well, I've got no sympathy. None.

That's why the Government's decision to expand its chemical castration pilot from four prisons in the southwest to 20 is one of the boldest and most sensible moves we've seen in years. David Lammy is right: we need tools that actively reduce the risk these predators pose. And the science backs this up.