Jordan McSweeney

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What a disgusting human being ambushing and murdering Zara Aleena like that and leaving her for dead.

Just makes your blood boil that with all those previous convictions and abusive relationships he had he was allowed to walk the streets.

Where is our protection?
I would just hate to work in a prison and see people like that day in and day out knowing what they had done.
Definitely couldn't work in a prison around people like him?

don’t work in a prison then

Is that all.you can say?

Have you no anger about him murdering a woman and leaving her for dead?
He's also apparently threatened police officers in custody. What is the point of his life?
He seems to have spent most of it committing crime and been violent towards people.

Quite!

A terrible thing has happened here, but people still need to be managed within the prison/probation environment. It’s a tough job with absolutely zero recognition compared to the other more visible parts of the Criminal Justice System.

It's a horrible crime.

Not sure why you are focussing on working in prisons, though.
We need prisons.
Don't work in one if you don't want to.

How long can women put up with this?

He was on bail and violent will anyone be held responsible?

He wasn’t on bail. He was on licence and was in the process of being recalled to custody.

Why was he even released? He was a danger to women. How many times do we hear about mistakes happening and people being released from prison when they shouldn't be?
He was a career criminal fgs.

The vast majority of prisoners are released irrespective of their crime. It doesn’t seem at this stage there was anything procedurally untoward about his release either.

Just a few thoughts on Zara Aleena's murderer pleading guilty today.

The court heard he was a prolific offender who had previously been jailed for criminal damage, racially aggravated harassment and unauthorised possession of a knife in prison.

He had 28 convictions for 69 separate offences including burglary, theft of a vehicle, criminal damage, assaulting police officers and assaulting members of the public while on bail.

He was released on license from prison 9 days before the murder.

This was a career criminal who had a long history of being a danger to the public and our justice system kept releasing him from prison to be exposed to the public.

It's now taken the horrific murder of an innocent woman for the system to wake up to the danger he posed.

You would think assaulting the police, assaulting members of the public while on bail, carrying a knife and a bunch of other serious offences would have rang alarm bells about the danger he posed to the public.

Whilst Zara’s family have been relieved of a lengthy trial they have lost her forever.

My question is how many other violent & dangerous men are out there on our streets who should be in prison serving lengthy sentences?

Repeat offenders who reaffirm their danger to the public should be locked up - society needs protection from them.

The Times spoke to the murderers ex partners who were also violently assaulted by him.

All the evidence prior to Zara’s murder showed that Jordan McSweeney was indeed a very dangerous man.

Why wasn't he in prison, Dominic Raab?

Unfortunately if the offences against McSweeney’s ex-partners weren’t charged or convicted, they would have had little bearing on the sentencing for the event that he was on licence for.

I don’t think Dominic Raab is lurking on this thread

Thank goodness there are people prepared to work in prisons or all criminals would be roaming the streets!
It's not a job I could do, but feel these officers should be given better financial recognition for putting their lives on the lives for us every day. Fact is, nobody gives prison officers a second thought - they really are the forgotten service.