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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Matthew Davis

Paedo jailings fall to an all-time low as courts are accused of going soft

Fewer than a FIFTH of paedophiles caught watching online child abuse were sent to jail last year.

Campaigners have accused courts of going soft on web perverts after figures showed a THIRD of offenders were caged a decade ago.

The alarming drop-off was uncovered by a Sunday Mirror Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice.

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