Passing the buck

If I was one of the four probation officers suspended today after the report by the Chief Inspector of Probation into the murder of John Monckton, I’d be feeling like I’d just been made a scapegoat.

John Monckton was stabbed to death and his wife seriously injured when he opened his front door to Damien Hanson and Elliot White.
Hanson had been out of prison for three months after serving half of his twelve year sentence for attempted murder and had a string of previous offences, and White was on bail for drugs charges.

The report says that there was a collective failure of probation staff in how Hanson and White were handled. What about the collective failure of the courts, judges and the government to make these guys get a proper sentence and actually serve it, instead of chasing this woolly liberal idea of getting people out of prison as soon as possible no matter what they’ve done, because we don’t like the thought of Britain being a country with a big prison population.

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