Offender freed early from prison under new scheme charged with sexual assault on day of release
HMP Wandsworth in London
WARNINGS that the government’s early prisoner release scheme would expose women to even more danger were “proven correct,” a leading campaigner has said.
This comes after a man allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the same day he was freed from prison under the scheme.
PA news agency reported seeing court documents showing that a man released last Tuesday, reoffended that same day in Sittingbourne in Kent.
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