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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham,John Dunne and Miriam Burrell

Fury at failings that left Zara Aleena’s killer on streets

Women and girls are not safe on the streets of London, the family of murdered law graduate Zara Aleena warned as they hit out at probation service “incompetence” and other failings which left her killer free to strike.

Jordan McSweeney, a “serious and career criminal” with a history of violence, was wrongly assessed as a medium risk instead of high risk when he was freed from a ninth prison term and should have already been returned to jail for breaching the terms of his release.

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