The Probation Service has apologised for “unacceptable failings” that led to a convicted double-killer being housed next door to an elderly woman who he went on to murder.
A triple killer has been given a whole-life order for bludgeoning his elderly neighbour to death after being wrongly housed next door to her while on licence.
Lawrence Bierton, 63, had drunk rum and vodka and was high on crack cocaine and Subutex - an opioid - when he murdered Pauline Quinn, 73, at her sheltered accommodation bungalow in Worksop, Nottingham.