Sex offenders and Shannon Matthews

My colleague Andrew Norfolk provided this eye-opening fact in this morning's report on the Shannon Matthews case:

Almost 1,400 registered sex offenders live within a 20-mile radius of Shannon’s home.

To that list was added the names of historic sex offenders whose convictions predated the creation of the register in 1997, plus those who had been arrested on suspicion of sex offences but not convicted.

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[adam]

Needs a bit of context, doesn't it? Like how many people live within that 20 mile radius.