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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Human rights laws could block removing sex offenders from UK, Cooper suggests

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Human rights laws could still be an obstacle to removing foreign sex offenders from the UK, the Home Secretary said, as she suggested changes could be needed to the way the rules are interpreted.

Yvette Cooper is seeking to change the law so that migrants convicted of a crime which places them on the sex offenders register, regardless of the length of their sentence, will be denied refugee status.

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