Jordan McSweeney should have been in prison on the night he sexually assaulted and murdered Zara Aleena. The reasons he was not have been exposed in a report from the chief inspector of probation, which found a catalogue of errors that led to a serious and career criminal, with a history of violence, wrongly assessed as a ‘medium’ rather than ‘high’ risk when he was released from a ninth prison term.
Justice Secretary Dominic Raab had ordered the review of how probation staff supervised McSweeney when it emerged he was freed from jail on licence nine days before Aleena’s murder.
