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Watchdog finds major failings in handling of Zara Aleena murder case
Protesters from Million Women Rise gather outside the Old Bailey in London, ahead of the sentencing of Jordan McSweeney for the murder of law graduate Zara Aleena. Picture date: Wednesday December 14, 2022.
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A WATCHDOG has found major failings by probation officers in the handling of the case of Zara Aleena’s killer.
Jordan McSweeney, 29, had been released from jail just nine days before he stalked and killed the law graduate as she walked home from a friend’s house on June 26, 2022, in Ilford, Essex.
In a damning report, Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell highlighted a series of failings that resulted in probation officers wrongly assessing Mr McSweeney’s risk of serious harm to the public as “medium,” instead of “high.”
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