Channel 4's The Paedophile Next Door, airing tonight at 9pm, will introduce viewers to "virtuous paedophiles", including Eddie.

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And, in the trailer for the controversial show, we see the self-confessed paedophile insisting that people need to start offering help to adults who are attracted to children and infants.

Speaking with documentary maker Steve Humphries, Eddie says: "People will probably say 'Why isn't this guy locked up? We should kill this guy, we should go and give him a good shoeing'.

"I, honest to God, won't run away from you and if that is what you want to do to me, you come and do it, because all you are doing in that scenario is just keeping the status quo."

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He added: "Going around abusing children is not acceptable, viewing images of child pornography is not acceptable, but people are just waiting for you to offend before they help you.

"They are saying 'Do what you want but if we catch you we are going to bang you up', instead of saying perhaps 'Listen, we can help you'.

"But if you don't have that help, (and) you don't have that option to come forward and say 'Look, I have got a problem, I need help', what are we changing? We are changing nothing."

Eddie insists that he has never acted on his urges to sexually abuse a child, despite the fact he has been attracted to them since his 20s.

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He has demanded that the government offers more help to people like himself, including therapy and counselling, before they commit a crime.

Stinson Hunter, The Paedophile Hunter, posted an unrelated message to Twitter last night which read: "I don't get how people like @The_SRP can be so 'proud' of the fact they're paedophiles."

The Paedophile Next Door airs on Channel 4 at 9pm on Tuesday 25 November. Will you be watching?