Daily Archives: April 13, 2010


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Tom Wells writes in The Sun: Bungling officials have labelled 15,000 innocent people as criminals in the past six years, The Sun can reveal. The blunders by the Criminal Records Bureau, a Home Office agency, amount to around seven smears every day. The victims discovered they had been branded sex offenders, violent thugs or fraudsters when they had a CRB check before a new job. Many went through lengthy appeals to clear their names. Our Freedom Of Information probe found the CRB coughed up an incredible £290,000 last year alone in “apology payments” to the worst-affected victims. Last night a spokesman for privacy campaigners NO2ID said: “You only need to look at the laid-back approach the Government has to its own data to realise it is hardly going to take more care in looking after other people’s – even when an incorrect record can ruin someone’s life.”

15000 wrongly branded criminals