Debbie Hayton Debbie Hayton

The shame of Sussex police

Officers should focus on reporting reality rather than protecting sex offenders from 'hateful comments'

John Stephen Dixon, also known as Sally Dixon, who abused several children (Credit: Sussex Police)
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Just what is happening at Sussex police? Yesterday, the police force issued a grim press release: ‘Woman convicted of historic offences against children in Sussex’. But the woman in question was, in fact, not a woman at all: it was Sally Ann Dixon, born John Stephen Dixon, a paedophile who was jailed for abusing several children between the ages of six and 15.

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