With nearly 600 people murdered in a decade by convicted criminals under probation supervision, the Government is failing in a basic duty to keep us safe.
That shocking toll, plus figures revealing more than 500 other serious offences a year are committed by those on probation, is evidence of a lawlessness and disorder crisis.
Law graduate Zara Aleena, stalked and murdered by Jordan McSweeney – freed only nine days earlier after wrongly being deemed medium rather than high risk by a private firm monitoring him – isn’t the only victim.
