[Lilly]

Originally Posted by emamum23

I though CRB's were put into place because of Huntley??

And i think i read somewhere that he did have a criminal record so wouldnt have got past the CRB check.... now EVERYONE who comes into contact with children... builders (if they are working on a school etc)partners and children of childminders etc.........

The main flaw of the CRB check is that they only check one name.

I remember reading that Ian Huntley fell out with his father so he started calling himself Ian Nixon. Nixon was his mother's maiden name.

He came to the attention of the authorities in the 1990s several times for attempted rape and sexual relations with underage girls all whilst he was going by the name of Nixon.

Shortly before taking the Soham caretaker job he was reconciled with his father so started calling himself Huntley again.

When the school in Soham did the CRB check they only checked the name he gave them which was Ian Huntley.

Had they checked the name Ian Nixon the offences he was investigated for would have come up and he wouldn't have got the job.

I am told that the reason the CRB only check one name is that it would be too costly to check two names, especially where women are concerned as a lot of women have maiden names and it would cost too much to run two checks on everyone who has had two names. Therefore they only check the name a person currently uses.

This is how Huntley slipped through the net. How many more have slipped through the net? We don't know.

I do find it all very sad. Children and decent people are having to suffer for all this obsession with paedophiles. It drives me mad sometimes.