Poland, South Korea, and some US states have already introduced it. In Germany and the Czech Republic, it’s used with remarkable success. One study found reoffending dropped from more than half to just 5% among offenders. That’s not a fluke – that’s proof. But mention chemical castration here in Blighty and the social justice warriors come crawling out of their ivory towers whining: “It’s a human rights issue… It’s barbaric.”

Really? Because I’ve got a better question: what about the rights of the next victim? What about the six-year-old who hasn’t been abused yet? What about the woman who’ll be dragged into an alley by a man we knew was dangerous but still gave a second chance? Let me be crystal clear: savages who can’t control their urges, must have them controlled by the State. That’s not vengeance, that’s common sense.

Chemical castration is not medieval torture. It’s a clinical, medically supervised process using hormone-suppressing drugs to reduce sex drive.

It doesn’t physically mutilate. It simply reduces the sick desire to harm others. If a man has already proven that he’s a threat, why are we still giving him the benefit of the doubt?

This isn’t about redemption, it’s about risk. Why are we letting sex offenders walk free, unsupervised, with all their faculties intact and their evil urges unchallenged?

We track their movements, put them on registers and stop them from living near schools because we know they’re still dangerous.

So why stop short of the one measure that actually tackles the root of the problem? You want to be in a civilised society? You want your “second chance”? Fine. Take the drugs. Show the world you’re willing to take responsibility for what you did and make sure you never do it again.

And if not? Then stay in prison.

This country spends far too much time worrying about the rights of predators and not nearly enough about the lives they ruin.

Chemical castration isn’t cruel. Letting known sex offenders back into the community without doing everything possible to stop them from offending again – that’s what’s cruel.

It’s time we stopped being soft. We owe it to the victims. And we owe it to the ones who haven’t been hurt yet.