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Home Secretary Charles Clarke’s policy puts repeat KILLERS on the street to save on PRISON SPACE.

Daily Mail

Wednesday, March 1-2006

by

James Slack

Home Affairs Editor

KILLER ON THE LOOSE (1)

HOME SECRETARY

Charles Clarke

takes the blame for blunders in banker murder case.

A DEVASTATING ‘collective failure’ by the Probation Service left two criminals free to kill banker John Monckton an Inquiry found yesterday.

The damning verdict from the Chief Inspector of Probation cast grave doubts over Home Secretary Charles Clarke’s plans to free thousands more convicts to live in the community.

As four probation workers were suspended from their posts last night, Mr Clarke said he accepted responsibility for the catalogue of blunders in the Monckton case and promised urgent steps to sort out the chaos in the London Probation Service.

But opponents questioned whether he could now have any hope of persuading the public that tough monitoring of criminals in the community was a suitable alternative to keeping them behind bars, as proposed in his five-year Law and Order strategy published last month.

Damien Hanson, whose nicknames included Devil’s child, Omen and 666, had been freed halfway through a 12-year sentence for attempted murder when he killed Mr Monckton during a burglary at the 49-year-old financier’s Chelsea home in 2004.

His accomplice Elliot White was on bail for drugs charges, despite having repeatedly broken the terms of two community penalties. Mr Monckton was stabbed eight times and his wife Homeyra twice, though she survived.

Yesterday’s report, by Probation Watchdog Andrew bridges, found ‘serious deficiencies amounting to a collective failure’ in both the cases of Hanson and White.

It revealed that the Parole Board decision to free Hanson then 24 was based on a report by a probation officer who HAD NOT MET HIM FOR 14 MONTHS.

A RISK ASSESSMENT CARRIED OUT ON HIM WHILE HE WAS IN PRISON IN May 2004 gave him a 91 per cent probability of sexual or violent re-offending. But this was not made available to the parole panel, nor was it acted upon by probation staff.

Conditions attached to his release by the Parole Board were not enforced. He was supposed to live in a hostel outside London, where the original attempted murder took place in 1998. But, when no place was found, he was allowed to return to the Capital.

Incredibly, an exclusion zone drawn to keep him out of contact with his first victim was ignored when he was actually ordered to meet his probation officer inside the cordon.

Mr Bridges described this as

‘utterly extraordinary’

The London Probation Service responded to yesterday’s report by announcing the suspension from duty of four unnamed officers involved in the cases. A total of seven members of staff had dealings with the two men.

In a joint statement, the Director of the National Probation Service Roger Hill, and the Chief Officer of London Probation, David Scott, said they accepted ‘entirely’ the findings of the Report.

But the Conservatives said there must now be huge doubts over Mr Clarke’s strategy to prevent offending.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said:

‘This problem starts with a policy that has created a lack of prison places -the direct consequence of which is that people who should be in prison are not in prison.

‘The public will properly demand that the Government is more serious about maintaining their safety.’

Hanson was jailed for 36 years last December for Mr Monckton’s murder and the attempted murder of his wife.

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Daily Mail

COMMENT

Wednesday, March15-2006

The vicious thugs set free to murder.

YOUSEF BOUHADDOU is a violent maniac with a long criminal record, a crack cocaine addict who habitually steals to pay for his £300-a-day habit.

He always returns to burglary at the first opportunity say police who know him (and there are plenty of them).

Yet this is the vicious thug who was

let out of jail early to commit murder.

-freed after serving

just 30 months of a five and a half year sentence

by the Parole Board that didn’t even

meet him.

-but took just

20 minutes

to review the paperwork.

NOW a fine man, Robert Symons, is dead as his family tries to cope with unsupportable grief, all of them betrayed by a

PENAL SYSTEM

-that no longer makes even a pretence of

PROTECTING THE PUBLIC.

There was nothing out of character in Bouhaddou’s appalling crime. That didn’t stop PROBATION and PRISON OFFICIALS considering him eligible for

EARLY RELEASE.

Nor did it give pause to the PAROLE BOARD.

NO, through INCOMPETANCE, FOLLY or simply the desire to relieve overcrowding they unleashed this menace on society anyway- just as they had agreed early release for the thug who murdered London financier

JOHN MONCKTON

AND WILL LESSONS BE LEARNT THIS TIME?

DREAM ON.

It seems the probation officers suspended after the Monckton case is to be reinstated. No doubt those who so crassly freed Bouhaddou will be treated with kid gloves also.

NOBODY PAYS.

NOBODY IS PUNISHED.

Certainly NOT the CRIMINALS, who under the 2003 Criminal Justice Act are automatically released halfway through their sentences, as Bouhaddou would have been, had he not been paroled earlier.

That is how this Government compensates for its failure to build more prisons.

NO LONGER DO CRIMINALS SERVE THEIR TIME

INSTEAD

Public Safety depends on probation and parole officials who seem to be bereft of any common sense.

DOES ANYBODY BELIEVE

ROBERT SYMONS

WILL BE THE LAST VICTIM OF THIS MADNESS?

[When the DEATH PENALTY was abolished in the 60’s it was understood that there would be a need for more PRISON SPACE and over the past nine years with New Labour’s stupidity in using any method in order NOT TO BUILD PRISONS even going so far as to down grade certain CRIMES which should be punishable by a Prison Sentence rather than to protect the PUBLIC and VICTIM.]

Labour’s love [IS] lost

Daily Mail

Wednesday, March 15,2006

Allison Pearson

This selfish lust for speed must be stopped in its tracks.

[Make the penalty fit the CRIME]

THERE was a huge response to my story about the obscenely inadequate sentence given to the driver who killed three-year-old Levi Bleasdale.

Police officers e-mailed their frustrations with a system which calls reckless behaviour an

‘ACCIDENT’

Bereaved parents sent stories almost too sad to write down.

So let us now praise

Judge James Stewart.

This wise man stopped a case at Leeds Crown Court last week because the defendant, who ran down 20-year-old Christopher Benson, was ONLY charged with driving without due care and attention.

The Judge demanded that the Crown Prosecution Service reconsider.

Inkthab Alam, a Tory Councillor was doing 70 in a 40mph zone when he killed Christopher.

He drove off and torched his car, then denied any involvement until four months later when police proved he did it.

Astonishingly, the CPS came back and insisted it could not make a case for death by dangerous driving.

‘This is a matter of some amazement to me, ’said the Judge, ‘This undercharging

is happening in the4 Courts and its getting out of hand.’

Millions will surely agree with him. We urgently need a CRIME called Vehicular Manslaughter, which they already have in the USA.

I wish those in high places with any lingering doubt could read the words of one reader, Sally, who told me what happened to her family.

Sally’s two boys were holding hands and crossing the road outside school when they were knocked over by a motors cyclist travelling at 70 mph.

The seven -year-old was killed instantly, his elder brother sustained head injuries, but survived. The Boy Racer, who had run into a policeman on a previous occasion, was fined £250 and walked free.

Over the next ten years, Sally and her husband fought for JUSTICE for their boys. Finally despairing, her husband committed suicide. Two years later, their surviving son took his life.

‘All this is a direct result of one lad’s selfish lust for speed,’ writes Sally.

‘There is no one, I repeat no one, in this world who is so important that five minutes added on to their travelling time will change the Universe.

BUT

A human life cannot be replaced.

‘Families like mine can never come to terms with the needless loss of our loved one. We go to hell, and only some of us manage to come back.’

How many Levis and Christopher’s will it take to change the LAW?

How many mothers like Sally?

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[The Punishment must fit the Crime

otherwise it will be a return to an Eye for an eye. The State has a DUTY to protect its citizens and its failure must be a return to a family Blood Feud.]

Home Secretary Charles Clarke -it is down to you -which way do you intend to go?

PROPER & FIRM

STATE JUSTICE

FAMILY FEUD.

Are you on the side of the CRIMINAL or the VICTIM?

The People are awaiting your answer.

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