Paedophile Wins Right To See Social Workers’ Records

A notorious paedophile who abused more than 30 Scots children has won the right to obtain the details of the criminal convictions of social workers.

Joseph Millbank, 47, who is serving a ten-year sentence in an English jail, used Freedom of Information laws to seek the details on staff employed in Dundee City Council’s criminal justice department.

After officials refused to provide answers, he took his case to Kevin Dunion, Scotland’s information commissioner and now Mr Dunion has given the city council 45 days to comply with the paedophile’s demand.

Millbank, from Luncarty in Perthshire, was originally jailed for six years in 2002 after he admitted a total of 16 indecency charges against girls in Stirling, Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness, Elgin and Dundee.

He abused a total of 32 victims, aged between three and eight, and captured their ordeals on camera, molesting one girl on her sixth birthday.

The original six-year sentence imposed by Lord McCluskey at the High Court in Edinburgh sparked outrage in the communities where Millbank had preyed on his victims.

The Crown subsequently appealed against his sentence on the grounds it was unduly lenient and in June 2002, his sentence was upped to ten years.