Lack of safeguards over prisoners’ early release puts abuse victims at risk, Lammy warned

Jade Belgrove, who has waived her anonymity as a child rape survivor, said she was ‘petrified for the women who have been through this’. Photograph: John Lawrence

A failure to put in place safeguards in advance of a change to the law that will result in offenders being released early will put abuse victims at risk, ministers have been told.

In a rare coordinated intervention, the victims commissioner and the domestic abuse commissioner have written separately to ministers urging them immediately to pause planned early releases of offenders convicted of crimes against women and girls in England and Wales.