Source
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-11717647
Summary
After being charged for raping his ex-girlfriend, Jonathan Vass murdered her while on bail. The judge claims he had no idea this would happen. But the CPS now says they informed the judge about the violent hazard this man would be for the 26 years old Jane. Bail was granted with a couple restrictions to keep the victim save, but nevertheless he stabbed her to death. The victim's parents claim that the judge is to blame, because he did not order to keep Vass in custody.
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I recently saw a similar case like this on the Dr. Phil show. A judge let a man have unsupervised contact with his son, though there was a lot of evidence of him threatening to hurt himself and this child. The mother of the child tried time after time to convince the judge of this by showing the evidence, but the judge wouldn’t believe her and the man ended up killing himself and his son leaving his ex-wife devastated.
Now reading this same type sort of story it scares me that this happens more often. Of course mistakes are made and also the other way around, but in this case I think someone who’s convicted for a crime like rape shouldn’t be out on bail and the victims should be the first ones to be protected by the law and the judges.
Something like this is really disturbing. I was always under the impression that when they take somebody in custody they at least have composed some psychological profile on him to see how much of a treath he would be when released. It is truly unbelievable that the judge just ignores this man's history of violence and let's somebody post his bail.
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