"He was allowed to be dangerous, untreated, and at liberty..."

Like so very many others:

The MoS revealed earlier this year that a psychiatric team decided not to detain Glover just weeks before the December 2019 attack, even though police had warned that he was planning to run over children.

Now a report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct reveals:

• Glover called Essex Police ‘many hundreds of times’, including on 117 occasions in the eight months before Harley’s death;
• On at least 30 occasions, he made threatening comments, including eight calls in which he threatened to run over children;
• A worried parent warned police that Glover was driving suspiciously near the school and watching children as they went home after lessons.

Despite that, the IOPC probe cleared Essex Police of any blame and makes no recommendations to change its policies or training.

‘Essex Police appear to have acted reasonably in their dealings with him and, having responded in line with the powers available to them in response to his vague threats to kill, cannot be judged to have contributed to Harley Watson’s death,’ it concluded.

Now an inquest has - quite rightly - decided differently. But this is just the one case. How many others are similarly allowed to be at large?