WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Stanley]

See THIS BBC report of the end of a very embarrassing incident.
A migrant who was mistakenly released from prison and then re-arrested will be deported "this week", David Lammy has said. Hadush Kebatu was arrested in the Finsbury Park area of north London at 08:30 GMT on Sunday, bringing an end to a 48-hour manhunt that began after he was let go in error from HMP Chelmsford. Kebatu, who was sentenced last month for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping while living in an asylum hotel, was due to be deported when he was mistakenly set free by prison staff. Justice Secretary Lammy said he would outline the terms of reference for a full independent inquiry into the release in Parliament on Monday. Earlier, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said an investigation was already under way, adding: "We must make sure this doesn't happen again."
Perhaps a good start would be to properly staff and fund the Prison Service..... Perhaps, (God forbid) take it back into government control instead of farming it out to the lowest bidding contractor.

[PanBiker]

I'm fairly sure that I heard a report last week that said that about 1,000 inmates per year are wrongly released each year. So this is not an isolated incident but a product of underfunding of the service, not enough officers to do all the checks and balances.

[Stanley]

I think I heard the same report Ian and wasn't there a crop of mistaken releases when the government was trying to free up spaces in prisons due to overcrowding?

[Whyperion]

Perhaps all incoming prisoners should have a barcode put on them to trace through the system and agreed next locations for them.
What the release , in error or otherwise shows is that every prisoner out needs to have a proper community support agreed Before scheduled, or early , release, IF this pathway were in place then the jails would have a fail safe on a correct discharge

[Julie in Norfolk]

Unexpected item in basket area!

[Tizer]

Breaking news from BBC...
`Israel PM Netanyahu orders military to immediately strike Gaza' LINK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the military to immediately carry out "powerful" strikes on Gaza, his office says. It comes as Israel says a coffin handed over by Hamas on Monday did not contain the body of another deceased hostage.

[Tripps]

Meanwhile worse is happening in Sudan. It is quite possible that thousands of women and children have been massacred.

El Fasher Sudan yesterday

[Stanley]

That's a timely and telling interjection David. I fear we have taken our eye of the ball In Sudan and Yvette Cooper does well to call our attention back there.

[Whyperion]

Mysterious Spanish road signs to be removed Tarelton , West Lancs

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractio ... gland.html and why not , 5 things to see in the villiage

Sometimes people do something helpful , only for the letter of the law to be applied and create a perverse result.

Similar line of thinking