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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Callum Parke

Families of Bendall victims say probation failings ‘must never happen again’

PA Media

The families of the victims of Damien Bendall have said the “litany” of failures by the Probation Service that contributed to the murders of their loved ones “must never happen again”.

A coroner found that numerous systemic and individual failings within the organisation played a role in Bendall murdering his pregnant partner, Terri Harris, her children John Paul and Lacey Bennett and Lacey’s friend, Connie Gent, in September 2021.

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