Eight years ago I was convicted of downloading indecent images and given a one year suspended sentence. This was reported in the local paper and was picked up by a couple vigilante web sites which copied and pasted the story along with photos they took without my permission from my then Facebook account. Eight years on the original newspaper report of my conviction no longer appears as it was archived years ago (yesterdays news) but links to these two vigilante sites still did so I applied to Google to have these links to my name removed as my SHPO had been discharged five years early with the support of the police meaning that my offence was now legally spent. Google replied with their standard template reply that “the information was still in the public interest”. I then contacted the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to ask them to get Google to remove these links but they too said “the information was still in the public interest”. I waited six months and tried again but got the same answers from Google and the ICO so decided I needed profession help. I had seen the My Clean Slate website www.mycleanslate.co.uk/advertised on the Unlock web site so I contacted them. Within three weeks of sending them my details they had got all photos and links to the two vigilante web sites removed from Google! It cost me £295 to get it done but it is the best £295 I have ever spent. No longer can anyone including potential employers simply google my name and find out about my spent conviction from eight years ago, If you have a spent conviction and details about it are on the internet I would thoroughly recommend contacting www.mycleanslate.co.uk/
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