SECRET personal details of Britain's most dangerous criminals have been lost by the Government.
The public could now face an enormous bill to protect paedophiles, rapists, drug runners and killers from vigilantes or rival gangsters.
The names, addresses, details
of convictions and even jail release dates of almost 130,000 people were all in Home Office files lost when a computer memory stick went missing.
It was being used by an employee of a private contractor working for the department.