In The News: After the rape and murder of Lisa Skidmore, it’s time the probation service admitted it is not fit for purpose

Julie Bindel for the The Independent

September 11, 2018

Six weeks before he murdered Lisa, Campbell told his probation officer that he felt like ‘doing it again’. Nothing was done, and no report was ever made to the police.

Lisa Skidmore was raped and murdered by Leroy Campbell in November 2016. He had been released from prison three months earlier after spending 17 years in custody for an attack on another woman, and had been in and out of prison for violence against women offences since 1983.

Six weeks before he murdered Lisa, Campbell told his probation officer that he felt like “doing it again”. Nothing was done, and no report was ever made to the police. Three days before he killed Lisa, Campbell cased the house, and was caught on CCTV practising putting a ladder against the wall leading up to Lisa's bedroom window. The day that he murdered her, Lisa was off work sick.

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