"Although they have recovered physically, you have caused incalculable harm to your victims and you have shown no remorse."Detective Inspector Mark Ross, of Hertfordshire Police, said after the verdict: "He has a complete disregard for women and sees them merely as sexual objects to be violent and aggressive towards. Between January 2003 and April 2004, Anthia preyed on lone women walking down dark, isolated streets in north London and Hertfordshire in the early hours of the morning. Britain's records hold 800,000 images, enabling officers to identify 3,000 victims. Thesoftware could be powerful enough to identify whether a room or background scene had been used in two or more images of abuse.The project will be discussed by justice and home affairs ministers from the G8 nations meeting in Sheffield today. They will also discuss counter-terrorism, tackling organised crime and tackling corruption in Africa..

A serial rapist who stalked suburban women was given 10 life sentences yesterday as it was revealed that he had been a violent, sexual predator since the age of 14. Other countries are also likely to contribute to the database, which could be operational within six months.The faces of adults convicted of child sex offences would be scanned and automatically added to the database, which could be accessed by police forces around the world.Child pornography seized by police will also be electronically scanned into the database in an attempt to identify victims. Tens of thousands of paedophiles will be listed on an international database in a fresh worldwide drive to track down child abusers. Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, will win backing today for the hi-tech project from leaders of the G8 nations. The move follows growing alarm that some of the most prolific paedophiles are travelling abroad to have sex with children, and national police forces are hampered in their efforts to catch them.The computer system will bring together police records on paedophiles from Britain, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia. His salary, to be determined by an independent panel, will be between £155,000 and £264,000.Sir Gus said the Civil Service needed to "inject even more pace and passion" into the programme of change begun under Sir Andrew.His other main task will be to ensure a smooth transition between Mr Blair and the man most likely to succeed him, Gordon Brown, with whom he has a good working relationship at the Treasury.. Sir Gus O'Donnell, who was chosen yesterday as the new head of the Civil Service, will try to drive through big changes to the traditional Whitehall culture before Tony Blair stands down. Some thought she meant Mr Howard should be replaced quickly, but one Thatcherite MP said: "She was meaning we should get on with attacking Labour.".

Baroness Thatcher said this week that she wanted the party to "get on with it". It is intended to avoid the election of a right-wing, Eurosceptic leader such as Mr Duncan Smith, who was popular with the gin-and-tonic set in the constituencies, but lacked prime ministerial qualities. The vote will be resented by party members and a campaign is already being mounted to overturn it. The vote has to be approved in September by the party's electoral college but is unlikely to be overturned.The proposal means that the party membership's preferred choice of leader has to be relayed to MPs before they vote, but they are not bound by it. "It makes you wonder how many times Michael Howard can be humiliated in a meeting by his own party and still carry on."The vote was a reassertion of the authority of MPs over the party members. "It was quite extraordinary to see the leader of the party and the chairman [Liam Fox] and Theresa May putting their hands up, and then the rest of the parliamentary party voting the other way.