Ruling could wipe out tens of thousands of criminal records/ The Times, 22 July 2008

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4375311.ece

"Tens of thousands of criminal records could be deleted after a landmark ruling that police were breaking rules on the holding of personal details. Police reacted with dismay to a judgment by the Information Tribunal, which could force them to review millions of records of minor crimes. The ruling opens the way for all those who have been convicted of a minor offence when young, and who have since remained out of trouble, to apply for their record to be removed from the Police National Computer."