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 previous victims of murderer Dano Sonnex who he subjected to separate armed robberies on the same day, today demanded to know why he had been released from jail early... more
The latest revelations about the weaknesses in London Probation and its failure to supervise offenders adequately - including Dano Sonnex - have led to a political blame game.... 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
Serious failings across the criminal justice system which led to the brutal murder of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez can be revealed today... 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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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
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