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Robert Brown was jailed for 26 years in 2010

British Airways captain Robert Brown admitted manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility.

They try to help people who break the law change their lives, while protecting the public from harm, and are always thinking about risk

Lawrence Bierton was on licence when he murdered his neighbour

Thousands of basic mobile phones were handed out during the pandemic to help keep track of those being supervised by the probation service, including prisoners temporarily released on licence to reduce overcrowding in prisons

Former singer was sentenced under old law that allowed automatic release on licence at halfway point

Lee Peacock, 50, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 39 years

Lee Peacock, 50, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 39 years.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pressed Rishi Sunak on the matter during Prime Minister’s Questions.

Probation officers have been accused of having “blood on their hands” after failings left a sexual predator free to stalk and kill Zara Aleena just days after his prison release.Damning findings by a watchdog laid bare a catalogue of errors by probation officers before Jordan McSweeney carried out the brutal…

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…