Alleged sex offender ordered out

The four men were given 48 hours to leave Derry

An alleged sex offender has been ordered to leave Londonderry, according to the head of the city's district policing partnership.

He is one of four men who were told by dissident republicans to leave Derry within 48 hours.

Councillor Shaun Gallagher condemned the death threat, and said the allegation had not been proven.

"No paramilitary group has the right under any circumstances to judge anybody," he said.

"This kind of event, and this kind of crime, needs proper investigation by properly trained officers in the police."

Mr Gallagher said the threat would only move the problem on somewhere else.

"If they have any information that could lead to this man's conviction, he needs to be convicted in Derry.

"Putting him out of the country is only going to put him in another location where he could be attacking innocent women, and this is not resolving anything," he said.

The threat was made through Father Joe Gormley from St Brigid's Church in Carnhill, who passed it on to the police.

Fr Gormley compared those responsible to Nazis, and said there was no place for such behaviour in a civilised society.

"It reminds me of something like the way the Gestapo would behave.

"All of us need to work together to rid our community of this anti-social behaviour," he said.