The Latest Breaking News from Damien Bendall

They will never be considered for release unless there are exceptional compassionate grounds to warrant it.

Highly skilled officers in England and Wales to be replaced by less qualified staff under MoJ proposals

An exact date for the inquest was not confirmed at the hearing.

Letters: Experienced staff are leaving because of impossible workloads, writes Anne King. Plus a letter from Ellie Dwight

Angie Smith, the mother of Terri Harris, is campaigning for easier access to background information about partners who may be violent.

Jordan McSweeney should have been in prison on the night he sexually assaulted and murdered Zara Aleena. The reasons he was not have been exposed in a report from the chief inspector of probation, which found a catalogue of errors that led to a serious and career criminal, with a…

Jordan McSweeney was released from prison just days before carrying out the brutal attack.

Jordan McSweeney was wrongly graded as ‘medium risk’ during litany of errors reflecting ‘systemic issues’

Watchdog report uncovers series of failings in supervision of Jordan McSweeney, who murdered the law graduate last year

Sexual predator Jordan McSweeney should have been considered a high-risk offender, a report has found.

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