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Criminals on probation commit a murder and a rape every week

By John Hirst

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Criminals on probation commit a murder and a rape every week

Criminals spared jail and supervised by the Probation Service are committing one murder and one rape every week, official figures have revealed.

In the two years to April this year, offenders serving community sentences and suspended sentences were convicted of a total of 121 murders and 103 rapes.

The Figures from the Ministry of Justice put new pressure on ministers over their drive to keep offenders out of jail because of prison overcrowding.

Community sentences are supposed to be passed on to criminals who have committed only relatively minor offences and who do not pose a danger to the public.

There were a total of 1,004 serious crimes committed by offenders being supervised by the Probation Service between 2006 and 2008.

The offences included 22 attempted murders, 44 acts of manslaughter and 682 other serious violent or sexual offences.

Another 374 alleged offences committed by criminals on community sentences have yet to come to trial.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).

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