The majority of the Probation Service is currently working at excessive capacity, leaked internal figures obtained by Channel 4 News reveal, raising further fears that the service is struggling to cope.
Failings by probation officers left a sexual predator able to stalk and kill law graduate Zara Aleena - just days after he was released from jail, according to a watchdog.
The aunt of murder victim Zara Aleena has said probation officers have blood on their hands following a damning report which revealed failings in the way her niece's killer was monitored after being released from prison just days before she died.