Honours system under scrutiny after sex abuser kept title for years

Expert in heraldry and genealogy wasn’t stripped of title until three years after court recognised him as a paedophile

Lawyers have called for an overhaul of the honours forfeiture system after it emerged that a sex abuser retained an honour bestowed for services to the Queen some three years after a court recognised him as a paedophile.

The system is too slow to acknowledge an offender’s offences, say lawyers specialising in abuse claims, and, in the case of those who have died, cannot strip them of their honours, leaving victims feeling that they have been cheated of justice.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2uCyvCt