The Latest Breaking News from Jordan McSweeney

Joanna Simpson’s family are right to be worried – too many violent offenders slip through the cracks of a service that is there to keep us safe, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Dominic Raab considering allowing judges to increase sentences of convicts who refuse to appear

Reforms made without consultation mean serious criminals are being released ‘without crucial testing’

Letters: Sue Hobbs outlines the inaccurate risk assessments of the young woman’s murderer, while Sarah Compton says nothing has changed since the murder of her brother in 2015

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pressed Rishi Sunak on the matter during Prime Minister’s Questions.

Sir Keir Starmer asks PM at PMQs if Government has ‘blood on its hands’ after failings that led to Jordan McSweeney being free to kill

That shocking toll, plus figures revealing more than 500 other serious offences a year are committed by those on probation, is evidence of a lawlessness and disorder crisis

Every six days someone is killed by an offender on probation and criminals on licence killed a total of 599 people in the last decade- our criminal justice system is in crisis, so when will the Government address these deadly failings?

Probation officers have been accused of having “blood on their hands” after failings left a sexual predator free to stalk and kill Zara Aleena just days after his prison release.Damning findings by a watchdog laid bare a catalogue of errors by probation officers before Jordan McSweeney carried out the brutal…