Green Councillor quoted on thousands wasted
05 November 2009
EADT 24 have reported Councillor Mark Ereira's comments on the waste of hundreds of thousands of pounds by Suffolk County Council on a children's home - only for the entire scheme to be scrapped once it emerged a convicted sex offender lived next door.
The report explains that building work on the five bedroom property near Bury St Edmunds had got underway when Suffolk County Council - which bought the house valued by agents at between £450,000 and £500,000 - found out about the neighbour's conviction.
He was jailed for eight years in 2002 for two rapes and a number of counts of indecent assault.
Mark is quoted as saying "It has become clear something has gone terribly remiss.
"I know my colleagues at the county council will have the care and safety of its children and young people as their first priority.
"But I think it is a huge failure of diligence particularly bearing in mind this property was for looked after children who are often incredibly vulnerable."
By Joe Williams
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