PARENTS are demanding all convicted paedophiles be named and shamed and their photos made public. Some said they felt physically ill after reading yesterday’s disclosures in the Guernsey Press about James Antony Brehaut being back on the street after just 12 months’ jail for child-pornography offences.

Worried grandmother Jean Kendall, 68, said: ‘I think all their names and photos should be in the schools so that parents can see them. If you see a photo of one of them, you are not going to forget a face.’

Home minister Geoff Mahy yesterday was unable to reassure parents concerned about paedophiles coming to Guernsey from abroad.

‘If a person is on the sex offenders’ register in the UK, there is a clause which says they must inform their local authority if they move. But if they were to ignore that, it is possible that they might get into the island and we wouldn’t know about it,’ he said.

Deputy Mary Lowe said she knew of at least two paedophiles who had lived undetected in Guernsey.

‘There are some who have lived in open market, so therefore they don’t need a housing licence and they are self-employed,’ she said.

‘It’s happened here in Guernsey before. The Home Department say they keep an eye on them, but one in the open market moved and they did not know about it.

‘I have been asking for a local sex offenders’ register for many years and cannot understand why there isn’t one already.

‘We have a responsibility to our children and parents should have the information if they are living near a paedophile and be able to make an informed choice.’

But a register could still be years away.

The Law Officers are working on new sexual offences legislation, which has to be completed before an offenders’ register could be created.

But this law must first be approved by the States and then ratified by the UK’s Privy Council and that could take years.

Deputy Mahy admitted that he did not know when one would be introduced in Guernsey.

‘Until we have the new sexual offences law, we can’t tell what offences need to be put on the register,’ he said.

‘As soon as we have completed that, we will look to producing one.

‘I don’t know exactly why it is taking so long.

‘It is being treated as a priority, but there is an enormous amount of other legislation that is also a priority and it can’t all be done at once.

‘I must stress, however, that I am strongly in favour of any measures that help to protect children.’