102. Paedophile Hunters: Do vigilantes help or harm justice?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Convicted child sex offender Mark Sutherland has arranged to meet a 13 year-old boy at a bus station, but when he arrives a team of adult “paedophile hunters” greet him with a video camera. In this episode of Bad People, hosts Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore vigilante justice. What right, if any, do these “hunters” have to track down sex offenders? When text messaging, do people have a right to privacy? And do sex offender registries make us safer or just more scared? CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Laura Northedge Assistant Producer: Hannah Ward Editors: Anna Lacey and Richard Collings Music: Matt Chandler Production Coordinator: Jonathan Harris Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland #BadPeople_BBC

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.0	Big, baggy, flamboyant, luminous green pink and yellow shirts.
0:09.0	Real creamed hair, boy bands.
0:11.0	Levi's denim jackets, walk on the cologne.
0:13.0	Welcome to Belfast 1997.
0:16.0	Not just any old part of Belfast, but gay Belfast.
0:19.0	It was electric.
0:21.0	There was a Seminick guy dancing in cages.
0:23.0	Every sale in my body was just met up.
0:26.0	I thought at the bar was Diron Bradshaw.
0:28.0	What happened next would go on to threaten peace in Northern Ireland?
0:32.0	One of the few gay police officers in the country shot dead.
0:36.0	If someone had told them that Diron Bradshaw was going to be murdered,
0:40.0	it's a story that's never been told before.
0:42.0	For his own skin, he traded Diron life.
0:45.0	This is blood in the dance floor.
0:47.0	Listen and I, on BBC sounds.
0:50.0	This episode contains description of sexual assault in violence,
0:54.0	which some people may find upsetting.
0:56.0	There are references to child abuse,
0:58.0	and there's also mention of intimate partner violence.
1:01.0	Three, two, one.
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