Sunday, December 18, 2005

Why banker's killer was missed by probation staff / Observer, 18 Dec 2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/prisons/story/0,7369,1670042,00.html
Jamie Doward
"Two years ago, an inquiry was set up into the lack of supervision of David Parfitt, a drug addict who killed a police constable, Ged Walker, while out on parole in Nottingham. At Parfitt's trial, it emerged that Walker had breached his licence up to 13 times. The constable's widow, Tracy, said the revelation showed Parfitt should have been in prison at the time of her husband's murder. The inquiry called for greater communication between the prison and probation services and the police, but the Monckton case suggests little has changed."