Suddenly all the government’s bluff and bluster about “public safety being priority number one in all instances” was stripped away in one short, sharp – and shocking – sentence.

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It was when Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told me this morning: “I think it’s now over 100 tag breaches a day in London”, before adding, “We are arresting two or three early release offenders a week since the start of August.”

He was responding to a call from Kirsty in Canterbury who told a harrowing story of how she was informed the man who had been jailed after he harassed and stalked her had been released and she was,........

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