CONVICTED pedophile Robert Excell will reportedly receive tens of thousands of dollars in benefits from the British Government, angering his victims and anti-child abuse campaigners.

Under British law Excell, who has spent 37 of the past 39 years of his life in prison for rape against young boys, is entitled to £262 ($618.80) a week in benefits, the newspaper said.

The wheelchair-bound Excell who suffers from asthma, diabetes and a heart condition, will also be handed £9000 ($21,256) to refurbish his house, a grant for a new disability car and disabled parking badge.

"The only money that should be spent on Excell should be on barbed wire fences and prison guards," said a 42-year-old man who was a teenager when Excell targeted him.

The mother of another victim, who was 13 when Excell molested him, said: "We hoped the British Government would keep the heat on him. I am just staggered that money would be wasted this way."

Shy Keenan, chief executive of Phoenix Survivors which helps child abuse victims in Britain, said: "The Government always tells us they are short of funds yet they give a very dangerous sex offender all this money so that he can do God knows what with it."

Excell, whose convictions date back to 1965 when he attacked a seven-year-old boy, was born in Britain but moved to Australia at the age of 10 and never took up citizenship.

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