A former Olympic judo coach has been thrown out of the sport after a disciplinary panel found that he sexually abused children in his care.
Yet the agency responsible for preventing sex offenders and paedophiles from having contact with young people has cleared him to work with children again.
Alan Roberts, who trained Olympic double medallist Kate Howey, was banned from coaching for life and stripped of honorary awards. But the decision by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to let him still work with children has shocked his victims and angered senior figures in the sport.
Roberts, who is retired, played a central role in British judo for more than 40 years. But he is in disgrace after a British Judo Association (BJA) adjudication panel chaired by a leading barrister, Matthew Ryder QC, heard evidence from five alleged victims during a week-long hearing last year.
The tribunal's unpublished report found that Roberts carried out a series of assaults on young judo enthusiasts between the early 1970s and December 2003. Two of them were under 16.