sentences when he was released. in our view, he should clearly have been assessed as being a high risk of serious harm to the public. he wasn t. if he had been assessed as high risk, greater controls would have been put on him after he came out of prison and more urgent action would have been taken to return him to prison after he missed several probation appointments. ten out of the 17 local areas that we have inspected over the last year and a half, we have given an overall rating of inadequate, which simply isn t good enough. two thirds of the individual probation cases that we inspect, we have found to be unsatisfactory in terms of the quality of risk assessment work that is being done. so, yes, recruitment is happening, there are more probation officers in training but that is not yet feeding through in terms of the quality of the work that they are doing. the service needs to hold on to more experienced officers and i am very concerned it is those more experienced probation offic
the pain that she must have endured. for the length that she was attacked. you re under arrest for rape and murder. jordan mcsweeney, who was arrested shortly after he killed zara, had already served nine prison sentences. and he had been released from jail just nine days before the murder. today s report by the probation watchdog describes how shortly afterwards, he d been recalled to prison for failing to attend probation appointments. but because he d been wrongly assessed as medium rather than high risk, he wasn t arrested as soon as he could have been. it really is impossible to know if zara aleena would have been alive today if things had been done differently, but certainly, if his risks had been correctly assessed and if more urgent action had been taken to recall him back to prison, that would have maximised the time that the police had to go out and find him.
have said she was just walking home when she was attacked and sexually assaulted. her aunt has always spoken for theirfamily. we re constantly stuck in a loop of disbelief. constantly stuck in a loop of images in our mind about what happened to her, the horror that she faced, the pain that she must have endured. for the length that she was attacked. you re under arrest for rape and murder. jordan mcsweeney, who was arrested shortly after he killed zara, had already served nine prison sentences. and he had been released from jail just nine days before the murder. today s report by the probation watchdog describes how shortly afterwards, he d been recalled to prison for failing to attend probation appointments. but because he d been wrongly assessed as medium
of images in our mind about what happened to her, the horror that she faced, the pain that she must have endured for the length that she was attacked. you re under arrest for rape and murder. jordan mcsweeney, who was arrested shortly after he killed zara, had already served nine prison sentences. and he had been released from jail just nine days before the murder. today s report by the probation watchdog describes how shortly afterwards, he d been recalled to prison for failing to attend probation appointments. but because he d been wrongly assessed as medium rather than high risk, he wasn t arrested as soon as he could have been. it really is impossible to know if zara aleena would have been alive today if things had been done differently, but certainly, if his risks had been correctly assessed and if more urgent action had been taken to recall him back
watchdog describes how within days of being released he was recalled to jail for failing to attend probation appointments but because he had been wrongly assessed as medium rather than high risk, he was not arrested as soon as he could have been. this meant he was free to wander around the streets of ilford following other lone women before he targeted zara. the report describes probation officers as having excessive workloads, with the service suffering from high vacancy rates, and injordan mcsweeney s case it says there was a lack of communication between prison and probation services. i am not going to blame our members doing their best, trying to hold the service together. i think the blame for this systemic failure lies at the hands of the secretary of state forjustice, i want them to meet with me and practitioners to get an idea how hard it is on the front