irish sexoffender's List: Castration

Professor Don Grubin, who is running a pilot on lie detector tests for sex offenders on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, thinks the drastic move could work on a voluntary basis.<br />The academic, a professor of forensic psychiatry at Newcastle University's Institute of Neuroscience, is already running a Government-backed programme that offers so-called "chemical castration" for sex offenders where medication reduces an individual's testosterone levels.<br />But following a visit to the Czech Republic, where they offer physical castration for volunteers, Prof Grubin believes there is scope to go even further in Britain.<br />Asked by More4 News whether there is a place for physical castration in Britain, he said: "If you asked me that two years ago I would have said no.

he paedophiles volunteered for a course of drugs designed to reduce their testosterone levels to that of a prepubescent boy in order to curb their libido.<br />The treatment is being piloted by psychiatrists at HMP Whatton, Nottingham, a specialist category C prison which holds male sex offenders.<br />The drug, leuprorelin, which is marketed as Prostap, inhibits the production of testosterone, which is linked to the high sex drives in paedophiles.<br />The programme is run by the Prison Service and the Department of Health and has been co-ordinated by criminal psychiatrist Professor Don Grubin.<br />He said: "I have referred around 100 people for treatment. It is still ongoing but I do not have anything to do with the treatment. They come to me in the first instance to see whether the treatment is appropriate for them.