PRISON SERVICE
Final stretch?
AS THE Prison Service accidentally frees hundreds of the wrong prisoners, it has left one inmate languishing in his cell for seven months after he was due for release because it could not find accommodation suitable for his disability.
Kyle Timms should probably never have been criminalised. He was sentenced to a nominal 999 months, to serve a minimum of two years, under the now defunct Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) policy after setting fire to his flat in a failed bid to end his life. He was allowed out on parole after just over three years, only to attempt suicide on a train line, leaving him partially paralysed. Instead of being offered mental health support, he was recalled to prison.