THE DAILY TELEGRAPH – The Daily Telegraph today launches a program, Swipe Them Out, a campaign to rid online dating platforms of violent and repeat offenders. The campaign comes after a 33 year old man was charged with the murder of a woman he met on Tinder. When Angela Hardy swiped right on Tinder, there was no way for her to know that her date was a crazed serial stalker with nine apprehended violence orders against him involving four terrified women. 36 year old Paul Lambert had breached parole and probation and created a new identity for himself after being deported from the US for threatening and staulking his TV presenter girlfriend there.
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Mark Brooks: Background check services are mature enough now that we should be offering them on all our platforms. They're not foolproof, and I don't think they would so easily catch the International criminals that bounce between countries, but they are better than nothing.