service — what is now her majesty's prison and probation service. where do you think the key failures we re where do you think the key failures were in this particular case? where do you think the key failures were in this particular case7m where do you think the key failures were in this particular case? it is quite clear that he should have been recalled as soon as he was arrested and charged with burglary, which would be the normal thing for a prisoner on an indeterminate sentence on licence, subject to fairly stringent conditions built into his release. it is incomprehensible he was not recalled by the probation service at that stage, let alone at the stage when he was convicted of the offence later, when the trial took place. thejudge who later, when the trial took place. the judge who commented, seem to comment on the basis he expected recalled to happen but it still did not happen. that is frankly beyond belief. what i cannot understand and is not clear to me, how a probation service failed to do that and what we re service failed to do that

in 2019, the chief inspectorate of probation said of the probation service, under the conservatives, he said, probation is not working as it should, it is not working well enough for the most troubled and troublesome people in society when they and the wider public deserve better. would you like to apologise to people for what has happened to the probation service under the conservatives? obviously i think we should be investing more in the criminal justice system, and i... so you made a mistake as a government? no. jeremy corbyn, labour leader, meanwhile saying that a lot of this lies in the cuts that have taken place to services over the years? we heard borisjohnson saying it is not about cuts to the probation service. the labour party's point of view is very much that this is as a result of almost a decade of austerity, cuts to policing and the probation service, and jeremy corbyn focus on that line of attack as a result of what we have seen in the past couple of days with this terrorist attack. he was asked on sky news whether he thought that convicted terrorists should serve a f

the labour pa rty‘s about cuts to the probation service. the labour party's point of view is very much that this is as a result of almost a decade of austerity, cuts to policing and the probation service, and jeremy corbyn focus on that line of attack as a result of what we have seen in the past couple of days with this terrorist attack. he was asked on sky news whether he thought that convicted terrorists should serve a full sentence. it depends on the circumstances, it depends on the sentence, but crucially, depends on what they have done in prison... so, not necessarily then? no, not necessarily. i think there has to be an examination of how our prison services work and crucially what happens when someone is released from prison. because i need to know whether or not the parole board were involved in his release. apparently, they were not. they make that statement quite quickly after yesterday's terrible incident. secondly, there was apparently no probation service involvement in monitoring this former prisoner who after all had only ser

joseph mccann was released earlier this year after an error by the probation service. his 11 victims over a two—week period included a pensioner and an 11—year—old boy. john mcmanus has more. joseph mccann captured on cctv in a petrol station. the assistant behind the counter has no idea that the customer opposite him is a sadistic criminal. outside, in mccann‘s car, sits a woman too terrified to attempt to escape. he has already assaulted her after kidnapping her after she left this club. a few days later, he abducts another woman near this tube station in london, then not long after, a third woman. terrible in itself, but instead of being free to terrorise them, mccann should have been behind bars. in 2008, he was jailed for an aggravated burglary at the home of an 85—year—old man. in 2017, he was freed on licence. the same year, he was arrested for new offences and should have been recalled to prison, but wasn't. a year later, he was sentenced for his new crimes and should have gone before the parole board before he was considered safe to be freed. inste

that and we work closely with the probation service. somebody on a indefinite sentence would be treated with great care and seriously. i cannot understand how it has come to this pass. there must have been people who should have known what theirjob was who simply didn't know what they were supposed to do for some reason failed to do it. and i can't think of any good reason why that would happen. philip wheatley there. a woman who'd alleged she'd been raped in northern india has died in hospital after being set on fire. she was attacked earlier this week as she was on her way to court. five men, including her alleged rapist, have been arrested. pratiksha ghildial reports. the 23—year—old woman who died after being set on fire in the northern state of uttar pradesh, was on her way to court to testify against her alleged rapists. she was reportedly dragged from near a train station by a group of men to a nearby field and set alight. five men are under arrest over the attack. the woman had filed a rape complaint against two of them in m

this is now her majesty's prison and probation service. he told me that he couldn't understand what went wrong in this case on the part of probation. it's quite clear that he should have been recalled as soon as he was arrested and charged with burglary. that would be the normal thing with a prisoner who was on an indeterminate sentence, on licence, subject to fairly stringent conditions, which were built into his release. it is incomprehensible for me that he wasn't recalled by the probation service at that stage, let alone at the stage when he was convicted of the offence later on when the trial took place and the judge who commented on the trial seem to comment on the basis that he expected recall to happen but it still didn't happen. that is, frankly, beyond belief. and what i can't understand, it isn't clear to me, how a probation service failed to do that and what were the precise things that went wrong? obviously, there were individuals who were responsible but the degree of churn and alteration to the way that probation works that

we know it rather dented the probation service. and whenjeremy corbyn attacked it in the way that he has, look, it's not opportunitism. this is his deepest, most heartfelt point about austerity, about running down the british public services, and that's where he goes as a kind of default position almost. when you see a problem — well, not of this kind, you don't get too many of these — but when you see a shortcoming of a public service coming into the spotlight, of course he is playing on all of that. and just as the whole argument over london bridge has gone on fairly predictable, predetermined lines. when it comes to labour and liberal democrats, it's resources. for borisjohnson and the tories, it's about tougher penalties. they each have their point. they are each reaching out to an electorate, i suppose, which is more likely to see their point of view than otherwise. and i think if people are talking about this at home, i think they will be... of course, people's initial reaction is the horror of what's happened, the sympat

labour meanwhile have raised issues of cuts to probation and parole services. does the law need to change to deal with the risk of terrorism and do you think tougher sentences are the right course of action? i think it is important to note the sort of individual one is dealing with with usman khan is particularly difficult to stop. he was an old—generation jihadi, someone involved in a classic al-qaeda plot involving lots and lots of people. fortunately, that was intercepted by the security services and he was prosecuted. what he did at london bridge a few days ago was a new generation low sophistication attack, not necessarily... it doesn't appear as if anyone else was involved. those are highly difficult to detect and to prevent. so, even if he was under quite strict conditions, and he was, as we know, under licence conditions, which included a tag, those things are very difficult to stop, so i think one ought to be cautious about saying there are measures that would have definitely prevented this happening. i spoke to dal babu, a former chief superintenden

well, since the probation service has been reorganised, what probation officers on the ground will tell you is that they are under resourced, that the system is confused and systems aren't working as they should do. and i think we need to get to the bottom of that and see whether that was a factor in this case. when you hear the details of what's gone on here and the failings, are you surprised? i'm not surprised that there are mistakes being made in the probation service. i mean, this individual set of circumstances seems very unusual to me. i'm not aware of anything similar to this. but i am aware of mistakes being made about processes not being followed that should be them being picked up almost as a last—gasp thing. so i do think that there's wider grounds for concern than simply the awful circumstances of this case. when you hear the details of this, where do you think the problem lies? well, it's difficult to say. there were clearly individualfailures here. but what we don't know is whether the context of the pressures and resource shortages the probation service are under were

could you address the point that you have decimated the probation service, the prison service as well, many thousands fewer prison officers, and the probation service as well, as well as police officers during the era of austerity. nick, just on a small point of fact, there was no pa role small point of fact, there was no parole or probation involved in this, he was released automatically but your point, and there was nothing that any parole board or probation officer could do about that. that was the nature of the sentence, but there is a valid question about how now we make sure that we have a criminaljustice syste m that we have a criminaljustice system that protects everybody and delivers justice. we system that protects everybody and deliversjustice. we are going to get a rare moment of agreement. we are putting a huge amount of cash into the criminaljustice system. i believe it should run smoothly, and we are putting another 2.5 billion into our prison system. you can only do that you have a strong economy. we have seriously overcrowded prisons, we have lost prison officers, the

service. he's in biggin hill in kent. ian, thank you for being with us on bbc news. this is obviously a terrible story. but those who are injured and those who died and those affected by what happened on friday, but there is obviously quite an important question now about the sort of conditions under which michael chopra depend released early from his sentence and in the case of your members, what role the probation service place bunny have somebody who has been convicted of an offence is serious as a terrorist offence. the first thing i want to say is to extend my condolences to the victims and their families stop in terms of the managing of high—risk offenders, we call them clients, my understanding of and information that has reach me is the highest levels of supervision were in place by the perpetrator. and that unless those conditions had been breached, then there was no reason as i understand it for that person not to make the journey to london and take part in that conference. all of

the head of the probation service has apologised "unreservedly" for mccann‘s mistaken release. also on the programme tonight. boris johnson and jeremy corbyn prepare for their last head to head debate, before the election next week. the teenager who threw a six—year—old boy from the viewing platform at the tate modern pleads guilty to attempted murder — it was a pre—planned attack. a miraculous survival — a woman whose heart stopped for six hours after she collapsed in a snowstorm in spain describes how doctors managed to revive her. and britain's anthonyjoshua squares up for one of the biggest fights of his career in saudi arabia. coming up on bbc news. chelsea manager frank lampard will be able to buy players injanuary, after their transfer ban was halved by the court of arbitration for sport. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a man who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and two children has been found guilty of 37 offences. joseph mccann — a convicted burglar who'd been released from prison by mistake — kidnapped and raped victims ch

there are three three bodies, the police, the prison service and the probation service. when it comes to the police, a committee of mps recently warned budget cuts would lead to dire consequences for public safety. another parliamentary committee warned the prison service is in the depths of an enduring crisis. a parliamentary report on the probation service at years of underfunding and reforms meant it was ina underfunding and reforms meant it was in a mess. all three key players are working together to keep the public safe from people like usman khan, have been portrayed in official reports are struggling to cope. meanwhile, the number of people managed by the public protection system has risen by 70% since 2010. politicians are promising they will spend more on the police and counterterrorism, but they must be serious questions as to whether a failure to heed those previous warnings that the system was bound to fail had these desperate consequences. an american woman who says she was brought to britain when she was 17 to have sex with prince andrew is urging the briti

joseph mccann was released earlier this year after an error by the probation service. his 11 victims over a two week period included a pensioner and an 11—year—old boy. john mcmanus has more. joseph mccann captured on cctv at a petrol station. the assistant behind the counter has no idea that the customer opposite him is a sadistic criminal. outside in his cloud, since a woman too terrified to attempt to escape. he has already assaulted her after kid tapping her after she left this club. a few yea rs after she left this club. a few years later, he abducts another woman at this tube station and not long after a third woman. terrible in itself but joseph long after a third woman. terrible in itself butjoseph mccann should have been behind bars. he was a job and aggravated burglary. it is of 17 he was freed on license. the senior he was freed on license. the senior he was freed on license. the senior he was arrested for new offences and should have been recalled to prison but was not. a year later he was sentenced for his new crimes and should have gone before the par

, coupled within the prison service, coupled with the probation service that sat to ta ke with the probation service that sat to take care because the greatest tragedy here is that having released you were her tutor. how did you and saskia become friends?” you were her tutor. how did you and saskia become friends? i said earlier she would come up to me at the end of lectures, notjust me but other lecturers, and talk to me about whatever was the topic that day, she would walk to me to my room and we would carry on talking about the things that work on topic for that week. she would come and see me in my office to talk about issues that she was concerned about. and then she chose to do her dissertation on rape and sexual violence and so i became her supervisor. and in those supervisions i got to know saskia in a much deeper way. she wrote beautifully and i read draft after d raft beautifully and i read draft after draft and i watched her dissertation growth. it was flawless. it was 100%. and then when she graduated she applied to cambridge university and she would come back and see me regula

community, policing, the probation service, the mental health service, you service and social services all have a vital part to play in this as does our education system. when the public services are cut back as they have been during the past decade of austerity, they leave behind huge gaps. and that can lead to missed chances to intervene in the lives of people who go on to commit absolutely inexcusable acts. so whether it is during their childhood, the first brush with the law, their first conviction or imprison in rehabilitation programmes. take the probation service part privatising 2014, resulting in disaster, a disaster that was predicted by the select committee at that time. serious cases stayed in a justice case make system undermined by cuts. staffs are supervising more cases than ever predicted, a security risk. you cannot keep people safe on the cheap. applause. real security does not only come from strong laws and intelligence, it also comes from effective public services. and if they have the funding that they need. real security demands more than a correct operational dec

service in a mess. the district responsible for mccann was more than 100 probation officers short. now there was a time when a catastrophic failure like this would have seen perhaps a government minister offer to resign. no hint of that tonight. instead, an apology, and that unpublished internal review from officials. small wonder people are calling for an independent inquiry. thank thank you. a teenager has pleaded guilty to attempted murder, after a six—year—old boy was thrown off a viewing platform at the tate modern art gallery in london. jonty bravery who's 18, hurled the young boy off a tenth floor platform, back in august. here's helena wilkinson. the six—year—old boy was with his mother on this tenth floor viewing platform, when out of nowhere a teenager appeared, picked him up, held him over the railings and threw him. he fell 100 feet on to this concrete roof. there was a little commotion with a very loud primal scream. the child's mother then tried to climb the rail. i restrained her

questions are now being asked about the role of prison and the probation services, and how effective de—radicalisation programmes can be — as our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford explains. usman khan, radicalised as a teenager by the notorious extremist anjem choudary before being convicted of plotting terrorism. he spent eight years in prison and another year being closely supervised by police and probation. but despite all those years and still being under supervision, he came to london on friday and killed two young people. how did the system fail? former governor ian atchison wrote a report for the government on how to deal with terrorist prisoners which he feels wasn't properly implemented. he says the number of prisoners is relatively small. there's only 221 of them. we have to get in there and start challenging and measuring if or how they can change. if they refuse to change, or if they're demonstrating that they are pulling the wool over authorities‘ eyes by pretending they‘ re changed, they‘ re still dangerous and in my view they should be kept in prison

yes, it's true that the under—resourced probation and prison service were probably unable to do enough work to make sure that usman khan changed his mind said, certainly the deradicalisation —— changed his mindset, certainly the deradicalisation system still does not seem to be working very well at all. and then, of course, there are issues for the security service, mi5, and counterterrorism police. what were they doing to make sure that usman khan on the outside wasn't a danger? so i think it's right across the board that there has been a total system failure, but it is worth repeating today what jack merritt‘s father said yesterday is that jack merritt would not have wanted his death to lead to much more draconian sentences and people being held unnecessarily in prison. the attacker, usman khan, had been released on licence for his involvement in planning terror attacks. specifically one on the london stock exchange. the prime minister has told the bbc that 7a people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed. earlier we spoke to i

in york today, the labour leader focused on the impact of cuts to public services like probation and policing. when those public services are cut back, as they have been during the past decade of austerity, they leave behind huge gaps. and that can lead to missed chances to intervene in the lives of people who go on to commit absolutely inexcusable acts. at south london's southwark cathedral today, mourning for the dead and sympathy for theirfamilies. a moment of quiet reflection in the midst of what has become a fierce political dispute. we'll hear more from john in a moment, but first daniel sandford is here with me. in the middle of this blame game between the tories and labour, where does the truth lie, do you think?m the end, amidst all the political heat, or what we have here is a total system failure. yes, it is true that if there had been tougher sentencing us and khan would not have been freed to kill at this stage. it is also true you could have better assessment of dangerousness before release. but then you have a prison and probation service that has endured a lot of cuts

services, that is according to a man called ian atchison, who carried out a review of extremists in prison for the government. he is a real expert. he blames crazy austerity caps for the situation, were prisoners who are supposed to be getting deradicalised are simply not being worked with. there is no money for these programmes and no proper training, he said. it is important to say, mr atchison is not blaming that for the specifics of the london bridge case. we were just hearing how increasingly, the evidence seems to be that khan was seen as a model prisoner, you know, somebody they could point to where rehabilitation was working. of course, that was tragically wrong. it is important to say, i think, tragically wrong. it is important to say, ithink, that tragically wrong. it is important to say, i think, that this criticism is not so much about the specifics of the case to the wider problem of released terrorists, because the working prisoners, the probation, is simply not being done. catherine? it isa very simply not being done. catherine? it is a very complicated picture, isn't

the head of the probation service has apologised "unreservedly" for mccann's mistaken release. also on the programme tonight. boris johnson and jeremy corbyn prepare for their last head to head debate, before the election next week. the teenager who threw a six—year—old boy from the viewing platform at the tate modern pleads guilty to attempted murder — it was a pre—planned attack.

service, the big reform of the probation service which tendered out some of the services to private companies, that could have affected what‘s going on inside prisons? companies, that could have affected what's going on inside prisons?” think i would add to the point coral makes, we are looking at state—run rehabilitation courses for people who have been convicted of terrorism offe nces who have been convicted of terrorism offences such as distance and disengagement, unfortunately that carries the risk of people almost deceiving the councillors who were actually involved in those programmes into tricking them into believing they actually have been de—radicalised, when the reality is very much remain a hardened fundamentalist, he may even harbour aspirations to carry out terrorist attacks going into the future. so i do think, in light of the tragic events last friday, i will say public confidence in those sorts of programmes are not going to be particularly high at this present moment. you see the way probation goes at the moment, i agree with you, you go in, they ask you, th

questions are now being asked about the role of prison and the probation services and how effective deradicalisation programmes can be, as our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford explains. after being convicted of a serious terrorist offence, usman khan spent eight years in prison. for another year, he was being closely supervised by police and probation but despite all those years and still being under supervision, he still came to london on friday and killed two young people. how did the system fail? former governor ian acheson wrote a report on the government on terrorist prisoners. he produced a report for the government which he feels was not properly implemented. he says the number of prisoners is relatively small. there's only 221 of them. we have to get in there and start challenging and measuring if or how if they refuse to change or if they are demonstrating that they are pulling the wool over authorities‘ eyes by pretending that they are changed, they are still dangerous and, in my view, they should be kept in prison indefinitely. after being convicted in 2012, khan did several c

service were doing, were they involved at all and whether the parole board should have been involved in deciding whether or not he should have been allowed to be released from prison in the first place. but overall, general election campaigning has been more muted today with the focus on the families affected and tributes to those who rushed to the scene. our emergency services, as always, rise to the challenge, so you know, we need to make sure there is a robust response to incidents like this, that any lessons that need to be learned are learned, but at the moment i think everybody‘s thoughts are with everybody who has been affected. there are clearly questions that need to be asked and answers found as to how this happened and the process for that is very important. i think today, that the focus is on those who are mourning. during the 2017 general election campaign there were two terror attacks, at manchester arena and another at london bridge. it can lead to a greater political focus on security issues, parties‘ records and their future plans for keeping people safe. but for

service being at the heart of it, he said ministers reaped what they sowed. do you have knowledge of some of those recommendations put forward ?|j you have knowledge of some of those recommendations put forward? i am afraid i don't. we know probation have said, decimated, because it has been part privatised. let's turn to the financial times. been part privatised. let's turn to the financialtimes. so, i did not know there were activist hedge funds but apparently they are, and one of them miss tci, and apparently the bosses saying, we will punish directors of companies if you don't disclose your carbon dioxide emissions, so he has warned companies like airbus, chartered communication, and we know these big companies never do anything because it is the right thing to do, they will always look at the bottom line, this is purely about money, but it just goes to show that climate change is going up people's agenda and it is really starting now to effect more widely when companies are starting to think, this is really important, we need to pay attention to this bec

but now, questions are being asked about the role of prison and probation services, and how effective programmes to deradicalise such people can be, as our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. after being convicted of a serious terrorist offence, usman khan spent eight years in prison. for another year, he was being closely supervised by police and probation. but, despite all those years in the hands of the state, he still came to london on friday and killed two young people. how did the system fail? former governor ian acheson has become a specialist in how to deal with terrorist prisoners. he produced a report for the government which he feels was not properly implemented. he says the number of prisoners is relatively small. there's only 221 of them. we have to get in there and start challenging and measuring if or how they can change. if they refuse to change, or if they are demonstrating that they're pulling the wool over authorities' eyes by pretending that they're changed, they're still dangerous, and in my view they should be kept in prison indefinitely. after be

service. he's also a member of the labour party. he explained that the highest levels of supervision from probation would have been in place. the first thing i want to say is add my condolences, those of our members, to the victims and their families of this dreadful incident. it is truly appalling. in terms of the management of these high—risk offenders, we prefer to call them clients, that my understanding was, from the information that reach me, at the reach me, highest levels of supervision by probation where in place and that unless those conditions had been breached, then there was no reason, as i understand it, for that person not to make the journey to london and take part in that conference or all of those things would have been assessed as a risk beforehand. with hindsight, anything can you can say anything in hindsight. but the fact is our members actually practice the conditions of license to make sure they are supervised properly. ian lawrence, general secretary of napo, the pro

service and he was pressed on whether it means terrorists should serve full sentences. it depends on the circumstances of the sentence, but crucially depends on what have done. not necessarily, no. there has to be an examination of how our prison services work and crucially what happens when someone is released from prison. the liberal democrat leader jo swinson said the whole system needed to be looked at. absolutely essential that anyone convicted of terror offences is properly assessed before they can ever be released and that hearing should happen with the parole board. that is what the law now states should happen. events often end up steering the direction of a general election and this one certainly has. well the vice—chancellor of the university of cambridge, professor stephen toope, has given this statement in response to friday's attack. 0n on behalf of the university of cambridge i want to express our shock and horror at the events that unfolded. 0f shock and horror at the events that unfolded. of course, we condemn utterly all forms of violence and terrori

service equitable fines and special events to investigate police abuse are really public relations gimmicks and i think it's important for people to realize that and. explain how are these gimmicks because i remember you've got you know n.b.c. c.n.n. all of these political leaders and politicians saying oh this is the answer this will make police better in america quote unquote more professional in fact has a done historically it has swelled the power in the arsenals of police as well as the ability of police to carry out agree just assaults especially against people of color when we're talking about. heavily armed swat teams with kevlar vests and long barreled weapons kicking down doors and terrorizing people in apartments for nonviolent drug. arrests not going to change the camera on there but well you know how that works is they got the guy in the camera back and they and the they're beating the hell. out of whoever it is they want and someone is yelling stop resisting stop resisting look all of these all of these are gimmicks you know you well you were read your miranda rights i mean i'

jeremy corbyn talking about the lack of funding for prisons, rehabilitation, probation services. we were hearing earlier from the man who is to be with the met police, not just from the man who is to be with the met police, notjust police officers but civilian support staff also, 18,000 being cut, we heard from del babu. you cannot keep running down the system. all of the stories we are hearing, last week it was the nhs, this week police and crime and prisons. if you keep cutting down budgets in real terms, at a time when actually our society is larger, more complex, more technical, you are going to have holes that people fall through and this is the legal penal system with its holes. taxpayers have to accept we have to pay more? yes, of course. of course we have got to pay more. where we have not got, sorry to quote mrs may, we have not got a magic money tree, i wish we did, i would be sitting under every day with a large bowl, but sadly, it does not exist. the sun on sunday newspaper, killed by beastie try to help. we get the opportunity to hear about jack merritt, beautiful sp

of what is happening in the probation service and what has been happening in recent years. they say it has been under resourced living staff with very heavy workloads. in terms of why the police didn't catch mccann sooner, they say he is a very wily individual, obviously a career criminaland we individual, obviously a career criminal and we know that a number of people are under investigation for assisting an offender. meanwhile, joseph mccann will be sentenced here at the old bailey on monday and it is expected that some of his victims may attend that hearing. then. june, thank you very much. june kelly, our home affairs correspondent at the old bailey. —— ben. the former conservative prime minister sirjohn major is urging voters to support rebel independent candidates standing against the tories. sirjohn will tell a rally tonight that voters should back three former ministers, who all lost the tory whip earlier this year over brexit. borisjohnson has described sirjohn's intervention as sad and wrong. it comes as the prime minister and jeremy corbyn prepare to go head

joseph mccann was released earlier this year after an error by the probation service. he was convicted yesterday of attacking 11 people over a two—week period. a woman who'd alleged she'd been raped in northern india has died in hospital after being set on fire. she was attacked earlier this week as she was on her way to court. five men, including her alleged rapist, have been arrested. pratiksha ghildial reports. the 23—year—old woman who died after being set on fire in the northern state of uttar pradesh was on her way to court to testify against her alleged rapists. she was reportedly dragged from near a train station by a group of men to a nearby field and set alight. five men are under arrest over the attack. the woman had filed a rape complaint against two of them in march this year. the main accused was arrested, but later released on bail. the family is now demanding the death penalty for the accused. translation: my sister is no more. the names of these five culprits must also be erased. this comes close on the heels of another brutal gang rape and murde

service being privatised at a cost of half £1 billion and then being taken back international ownership because it didn't work very well, there was a massive reoffending rate. —— back into national ownership. this was a man who was originally injail for ownership. this was a man who was originally in jail for aggravated burglary and when he came out he gravitated to a much more serious kind of offending, and that is something that his original indeterminate sentence could have been that should have been assessing as he went through the process. but burglars are not expected to do this kind of thing when i come out and reoffend. the kind of supervision he was under was not the kind of supervision a potential rapist would be under. interesting to know what made him worse, what made him reoffend. was it something that happened in prison, was it something that happened before he was convicted for burglary? was he not convicted for burglary? was he not convicted for burglary? was he not convicted for previous offences? so many things to be investigated, and we will not find out until wel

a lot of questions being asked about the probation service in relation to this incident. what else are labour talking about? focusing on their other big election issue, the nhs, an area labour know they can potentially win some support, and we are getting a line from labour looping at gp appointments and seeing that figures show 6 million patients waited more than two weeks for a patients waited more than two weeks fora gp patients waited more than two weeks for a gp appointment in october, and they are saying that gp numbers are down. the conservatives say they measure it by a different system and they say gp numbers are up so some dispute between the two main parties on dispute between the two main parties o n exa ctly dispute between the two main parties on exactly what is happening in terms of gp numbers. the former wales rugby captain, gareth thomas, says he wants his lasting legacy to be about raising awareness of hiv. he revealed he was hiv positive earlier this year, and has spoken to the duke of sussex about breaking the stigma of the virus in an interview releas

service to monitor individuals and look at whether they are adhering to their conditions. now, what we've had is we've had a 22,000 reduction in police officers. we've had 18,500 reduction in police staff, so if you look at that, the majority of that reduction has been in neighbourhood policing. so tell us, what's the difference between police staff and the police officers? because it's almost as big a cut. yes. when i was borough commander, i say police staff played equally as an important role as police officers, so they would be community support officers, there has been a significant reduction in those numbers. it would be intelligence officers, so once the police officers have gathered the intelligence, you need people to analyse that information. so people who have those kind of roles, they will also be people who would be liaising directly with probation, social workers, youth workers. so that kind of glue that was holding people together has been reduced. and all that's happened is police officers are now being taken off the street in order to fulfil those roles. w