Facebook vigilante posts 6,000 photos of convicted paedophiles and sex offenders online

A vigilante is celebrating after completing a database of 6,000 convicted sex offenders and paedophiles across every county in Britain and posting their names and photographs on Facebook. Chris Wittwer said he has created the largest photographic gallery 'in the world' after spending 'every waking hour' gathering police mugshots of registered sex offenders.

Nearly 18,000 people have joined his Facebook groups since the 34-year-old started compiling the huge online bank two years ago. A total of 44 groups on the social networking site feature 5,930 names and photographs of sex criminals who have been convicted in Britain's courts.

Mr Wittwer, from Exeter, who works as a warehouse operator said today: 'I feel really proud.

'It's quite an achievement and if it helps people spot sex offenders living in their area, who are a known risk to children, then I've done a good thing.

'It's a really big project - way bigger than anything before like the other site RatBook.

'But it's not a question of being a hate mob, it's the simple fact that on the national sex offenders register you can access some information but you can't see the faces of those who commit the crimes. 'With my groups you can see the picture of the offender, their name, the date of their offence and where they were resident at the time.

'Because of the repeat nature of many child sex offences it is an invaluable tool for parents who want to keep a watching eye over their kids.' Mr Wittwer had his first group closed down by police when he first started the venture two years ago for the county of Devon.

But the online portals were started back up again because the campaigner was able to show he was not breaking any laws by presenting information already in the public domain.

He has stuck religiously to only putting up details of convicted sex offenders by checking local newspapers and court records.

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