There has been a campaign to get a similar law enacted (pushed particularly by some tabloid newspapers), but it hasn't been done, possibly because a large proportion of the British public can't be trusted with such information.
One of the tabloids blackmailed some people who did have access to the lists (the Scouts, I think) into giving them some names and addresses of convicted paedophiles (they said they'd denounce the Scouts as being pro-paedophile if they didn't), and then published some. Mobs then gathered on the streets, breaking windows, daubing the houses with paint, threatening to kill them, etc. I remember a TV news shot of a couple of grown women phoning up someone, shouting abuse at them, and collapsing into giggles. It was clearly the best fun they'd had all year.
People who shared a name with the paedophiles were targeted. So was a paediatrician, because the mob was too dumb to know the difference.
After that, the tabloids backed off a bit - they hadn't realised just how stupid some of their readers were.
Having said all that, this story does make me ashamed of the British justice system (so far - at least the sentence can be increased on appeal).
Consider:
- He raped the 13-month old
- He was also convicted of indecency toward a six-year old girl
- He had 2280 indecent images of children
- He blames his crimes on 'the stress of working nightshifts'
- He is 43, and held a normal job - ie he is not educationally sub-normal
- He is 'stricken with remorse'
Somehow, this has been translated to 'low risk of offending again' (he's already a multiple offender - where was the remorse after the first offence?), and 'viewing of pornography compromised his moral boundaries' - if anyone were that suggestible (and I don't believe anyone with an IQ above 50 would be), then they need to be kept away from any influence whatsoever, for good - if they can't learn to be a moral being by 43, they never will.
The judge and psychologist need sacking, and the rapist should have a life sentence. I think we're all preaching to the choir, but sometimes it's good to express your disgust, isn't it?