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A regional daily newspaper has apologised to a man whose home was attacked after being wrongly identified as a child sex offender. The 45-year-old man had his home sprayed with graffiti and his van set alight after the Eastern Daily Press reported that he had been convicted of a sexual offence against a 15-year-old girl. [...] [T]he newspaper had confused his name with that of a defendant in a different case. [...] However the individual concerned, who was acquitted of assault charges last week, has since given a television interview saying he had suffered damage to his property.<br>
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<i>source: Article 'Regional daily apologises to man wrongly named as sex offender' by Paul Linford; www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/regional-daily-apologises-to-man-wrongly-identified-as-sex-offender/; HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk; 14 September 2011</i>

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