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The case also exposes the limitations of offender profiling.

A report criticising offender profiling by Jackson and two colleagues will be published in the legal journal, Amicus, next month.

In the meantime, there are plenty of things to be getting on with that don't depend on offender profiling.

"I was approached by a senior officer in the Met who had seen a television documentary on offender profiling by the FBI," he recalls.

Offender profiling was first used in the UK in 1986, when psychologist David Canter drew up a description of the "Railway Rapist" and serial killer John Duffy.

But according to a team of psychologists at Birmingham City University, the practice of offender profiling is deeply unscientific and risks bringing the field into disrepute.

In many cases, offender profiles are so vague as to be meaningless, according to psychologist Craig Jackson.

The Home Office holds a register of psychologists and other professionals who are qualified to give offender profiles to police forces after reviewing details of a crime.

Crime and Punishment Oprah Winfrey has presented a check for $50,000 to the two friends who identified a convicted sex offender profiled on her television show, The Associated Press reported.

There have been so few investigations of large offending groups that a few cases involving big non-Asian groups could easily shift these offender profiles in a whole new direction.

And it is not clear why anyone would want to create a fake sex offender profile on Facebook.