20/07/96 - Parents of murdered girl back proposals for a paedophile register
Independent

The parents of Sophie Hook, whose killer Howard Hughes was jailed for life on Thursday, yesterday backed the Home Office's proposals for a paedophile register.

Hughes was given three life sentences for abducting Sophie, seven, from a tent in her uncle'sgarden and raping her before strangling her and throwing her body into the sea.

Speaking publicly for the first time since Hughes was sentenced at Chester Crown Court, Chris Hook, 38, of Great Budworth, Cheshire, said he felt a paedophile registershould be put in place and advocated displaying posters of offenders in their home towns.