Published Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Row over housing of sex offenders
"The reopening of a north Belfast hostel has caused controversy after Justice Minister David Ford rejected calls to reconsider housing sex offenders in the facility.
Thompson House on the Antrim Road has been refurbished to house 19 offenders and is due to reopen.
The hostel is run by the Presbyterian Church and Lindsay Conway from the Board of Social Witness said the new facility is the result of a public safety debate and he claims that it will help "reduce risk".
"We are better to know where sex offenders are, that they are being monitored and that they are being kept to the special conditions of their settlement plan and that that is built into the technology and to the staffing levels in Thompson House," he said."
"There is a difference between a sex offender and an ordinary, common, decent, eh, offender ... a criminal, as such ..." [Patrick Wilson, of the Cavehill Antrim Road Regeneration Group]
http://www.u.tv/News/Row-over-housing-of-sex-offenders/cc7bcfe4-62b6-4e43-85e8-f87441c0afd7
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