Should soccer rapist be allowed to play again?

CONVICTED sex offender Ched Evans is back training with Sheffield United (Mail). Why, exactly, do we have Criminal Records Bureau (now known as Disclosure and Barring) checks?

TERRY SPENCER, Sheffield. WHY all the fuss about Welsh football player Chedwyn Evans resuming his career? It’s double standards. In the House of Lords and elsewhere in politics, those who are convicted return and pass legislation while participating in a variety of public debates. Evans has served his time and should be allowed to continue his career, as others have been able to do.

COLIN HAWKINS, Amlwch, Anglesey. I ASSUME all the highly principled people vehemently opposed to Evans resuming his football career refused to watch a single episode of EastEnders when it starred convicted murderer Leslie Grantham.

DICK BOOKER, St Albans, Herts. IT’S JUST possible that Evans’s conviction was a miscarriage of justice. As it was a case of his word against hers, another jury may well have believed the footballer rather than his accuser and acquitted him. Verdicts can be wrong, and if an innocent man in these circumstances is convicted, he’s likely to be angry, not remorseful. Ched has, in any case, served a sentence and doesn’t now have to show remorse if he believes he was wrongly convicted. Members of the self-appointed campaigns who are trying to stop this man resuming his career need to reflect that they, too, might have got it wrong. Only the two people involved will ever know.

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