in sport today, delight for scottish side darvel. how the sixth tier side upset all the odds to knock out premiership side aberdeen in what s being called the biggest upset in scottish cup history. 0k, set, and. . .action. and it s one of the biggest hits of the year so far. we go behind the scenes with star of happy valleyjames norton. there s an energy about tommy. there s a kind of animal, vital and unstoppable kind of force. and so when he s allowed to let rip, like he was yesterday, it s so fun. good morning. the northwest, southeast split in the weather once again today. the north and the west and cloudy with some patchy rain, and cloudy with some patchy rain, and the south has patchy fog and frost. it s tuesday 24th january. failings by the probation service left a serial offender free to commit murder, just days after he was released from prison, according to a damning watchdog report. the chief inspector of probation said a catalogue of errors led tojordan mcsweene
of the probation service, after a watchdog investigation found that failings by the probation service left a serial offender free to murder law graduate zara aleena lastjune. the attack happened days afterjordan mcsweeney was released from prison. the chief inspector of probation told the bbc that there s a chronic understaffing problem. london is chronically understaffed in terms of its probation services at the moment. when we inspected them last time, we found that they had over 500 vacancies, and at some key grades and in some boroughs in london, over 50% of key probation posts are vacant. in this particular case, we found a very heavily overloaded senior probation officer supervising, a probation officer who had 50% more workload than they should have had. it is impossible to say whether the murder could have been avoided, but we did find severe deficits in practice at many stages of jordan mcsweeney s supervision. he was a career criminal who had a long string of violent and prop
left a serial offender free to commit murder, just days after he was released from prison, according to a damning watchdog report. the chief inspector of probation said a catalogue of errors led tojordan mcsweeney carrying out a terrifying and ruthless attack on law graduate zara aleena lastjune, a crime he is currently serving a life sentence for. our home affairs correspondent, june kelly reports. zara aleena s family and friends 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
but mild, and in the south and east it is called to start with woods and frost, also some fog, so here we will see some sunshine. all of the details later. it s tuesday 24th january. our main story. failings by the probation service left a serial offender free to commit murder, just days after he was released from prison, according to a damning watchdog report. the chief inspector of probation said a catalogue of errors led tojordan mcsweeney carrying out a terrifying and ruthless attack on law graduate zara aleena lastjune, a crime he is currently serving a life sentence for. our home affairs correspondent, june kelly reports. zara aleena s family and friends 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