The risk of further tragedies like the
Baby P case and the murder of two French students in New Cross will be heightened because of government spending cuts, a London academic says... more
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke wants to cut the prison population but is also slashing the probation budget. So who will supervise the thousands more offenders out on the streets?... more
Detectives were questioning a suspect after two men were found murdered in a south London flat in a blood-soaked scene resembling 'an abattoir'... more
The former head of London Probation has accused Jack Straw of trying to dodge the blame for the murders of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez... more
Failings that left a convicted knife thug free to murder two brilliant French students were the result of "utterly meaningless" prison sentences, the Conservatives have claimed... more
Fresh concerns over monitoring of freed offenders in London raised after report into capital’s probation service warned of “disappointing” standards... more
Two French students who were brutally murdered in London by a pair of sadistic killers would never have died but for a series of appalling blunders by probation staff and police... more
As the killers of two French students in London are found guilty of murder, one criminal justice expert says Whitehall policy blunders are most to blame
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The Sonnex family was feared across south London. Bernie Sonnex, the father, has 47 convictions, including drugs and firearms offences and has been jailed six times. His wife Kathleen Quinlan left him... more
Murder suspect Dano Sonnex admitted for the first time that he was inside the New Cross flat where two French students were tortured and killed... more
A woman spoke of her shock as one of the men accused of murdering two French students confessed to her but claimed the police refused to arrest him... more
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