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Child sex offender details posted on Most Wanted website
29 December 2006
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre posts its sixth most wanted convicted offender after 4 of first 5 offenders are located.
www.ceop.gov.uk/wanted - has already enabled the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre to locate 4 of the UK’s most wanted convicted child sex offenders. Now it is posting details of a sixth offender to continue its success.
People are now being asked to support the search for Peter WHEATHERLEY. Details of the 39 year old have been posted on the Most Wanted site.
WHEATHERLEY is sought for failing to comply with his notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. He is missing from the South Yorkshire area but is known to have links across the North of England. Intelligence also suggests that WHEATHERLEY could be in Spain, or elsewhere in Europe.
“So far, ‘Most Wanted’ has proved to be a massively successful tool for locating missing offenders,” explains the CEOP Centre’s Chief Executive, Jim Gamble.
“Recently this website prompted a public sighting which led to the arrest of Paul Francis Turner in Northern France. He was our fourth convicted offender to be located since we launched the service in November.
“That means 4 of the UK’s most serious convicted child sex offenders have been located within weeks of this website going live.
“So our message is clear. Child sex offenders will be caught. There will be no hiding place. Children everywhere need to be protected from this horrific crime and we will do all we can to meet that objective.
“WHEATHERLEY is new to our site. I’d ask people to take a look at him and if they have suspicions about his whereabouts to report them directly to the local police force or anonymously to Crimestoppers.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre continues to appeal for information about its fifth outstanding offender, Joshua Karney.