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Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Prison reform

December 8, 2009 09:15
1 min read

Every element of this sentence, in a story in the Mail about Lisa Healey, who was 15 when she tortured and killed a
pensioner and is now about to be released with a secret identity, makes you gulp with disbelief (actually it's all too believable):

She gave birth to a daughter earlier this year after being seduced by
an inmate from another open jail, whom she met at a Ministry of Justice
forum on prison reform.

As Richard Littlejohn would say: you couldn't make it up

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