OPINION - Fury at failings that left Zara Aleena’s killer on the streets

Jordan McSweeney should have been in prison on the night he sexually assaulted and murdered Zara Aleena. The reasons he was not have been exposed in a report from the chief inspector of probation, which found a catalogue of errors that led to a serious and career criminal, with a history of violence, wrongly assessed as a ‘medium’ rather than ‘high’ risk when he was released from a ninth prison term.