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Convicted of murder, released because "no longer dangerous". He struck again
A British man is sentenced to life for the second time today for a bloody attack on a defenceless victim. Stephen Leonard (57) received a first life in 1979 for the murder of a 3-year-old girl. That case was so horrible that its details were never revealed. In 2002, however, he was released after a parole committee ruled that he was “no longer dangerous”. In the summer of last year, however, he struck again. Equally merciless.
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I guess this is where the law demonstrates its impotence in dealing with ultra-violent crime in the UK.