What are the excellent questions within the wake of the Wandsworth jail escape?
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uspected terrorist soldier Daniel Khalife escaped from Wandsworth jail on Wednesday.
So far there have been no confirmed sightings regardless of a nationwide manhunt, police stated.
Here are a number of the questions concerning the incident which stay unanswered:
– Why was Khalife in Wandsworth and never a better safety jail?
Khalife was reportedly initially in custody at most safety Belmarsh jail, the place terrorist prisoners and people accused of such offences are sometimes held, however later transferred to Wandsworth.
John Podmore, a former governor at HMP Brixton and HMP Belmarsh, advised the BBC Radio 4’s World At One: “My view is that he should have been at Belmarsh.
“It’s much more suited to the levels of security that someone like this – charged with, not convicted – needs. I can’t understand why he wasn’t at Belmarsh.”
– Why was he allowed to work within the kitchen?
Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor advised the PA news company a prisoner has to earn a “certain level of trust” so as to be allowed to work in a kitchen.
He stated: “If you’re a prisoner who’s working in the kitchen, you would have earned a certain level of trust anyway, because you would have been seen as someone who could be safe around things like knives, so you would only be allowed to do that and you earn some trust as a prisoner, so you would have kept your nose clean.”
– Was this a pre-planned escape, an inside job, and did he get every other assist?
Police haven’t divulged their theories on this or whether or not there may be any proof to recommend this, however it’s going to kind a part of their investigation.
No-one has been arrested or interviewed below warning in reference to the incident.
Mr Podmore additionally advised the BBC programme there was a “possibility” Khalife’s escape was an inside job.
– Are staffing shortages a consider how the escape was in a position to happen?
Mr Taylor stated inspectors are “particularly concerned” about staffing on the jail, including: “That ultimately is the source of many of the problems in the jail.”
Wandsworth has one of many highest charges of illness absence amongst workers, official Government figures present.
Unions and watchdogs say they’ve raised repeated issues about staffing ranges there.
– When will a royal fee wanting on the legal justice system be launched, as promised within the Conservative manifesto?
Ministers are going through rising calls to urgently honour its manifesto pledge of finishing up a overview of the legal justice system.
Prison officers’ union the POA known as for an “urgent” royal fee within the wake of the incident, saying that, with out one, issues are “just going to get worse”.
So far the Government has been unable to say what current progress has been made to honour the dedication.