...and put those who freed him in it.
A Jack the Ripper obsessive who tried to kill a pensioner in a barbaric riverside knife attack had been freed after a warning he posed an imminent risk of 'serious injury and potentially death', a court has heard.
It's the only thing that will work. After all, all those reports that judges call for clearly mean nothing...
Anthony Roberts was jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years and nine months on Tuesday by a judge who said the circumstances of the 56-year-old's release 'were for others to examine'.
Examine, and actually act on. There needs to be consequences for failure.
The court was told Roberts, of Green Hill, Worcester, has a chromosomal disorder and was diagnosed with an 'untreatable' psychopathic personality disorder in 1993.
Passing sentence, Mrs Justice Ellenbogen said she had read six parole assessment reports written in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The final report in May 2021, the judge said, found that Roberts - who absconded from prison in 2019 - posed a risk of harm specific to females aged 16-30 and of 'serious injury and potential death of any female victim'.
'She (the report's author) assessed the risk as imminent and high,' the judge added.
And what do those tasked with oversight say? Would you believe, Reader, the usual?
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: 'This was a despicable crime and our heartfelt sympathies are with the victim and their family.
'A Serious Further Offence review is underway to establish the full facts of the case and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.'
Ah, a review. More cosy make-work for the State's apparatchiks.
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