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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tom Pettifor

Probation staff missed 'catalogue of chances' to stop sex fiend who murdered Zara Aleena

Sexual predator Jordan McSweeney was free to murder Zara Aleena after probation staff missed a catalogue of chances to stop him, a report reveals today.

McSweeney 29, was wrongly considered medium risk by the private firm monitoring him despite the killer warning staff his anger scared him.

In a damning report, Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell highlighted a failure to recall the cocaine user to jail quickly enough before the murder.

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