Convicted killer was freed to murder his ex-partner after catalogue of probation service failures

Probation services ignored ‘several warning signs’ that could have stopped the murder of a mother-of-six, a damning report has revealed.   Janet Scott, from Arnold, Nottingham, was murdered on a city street by her former lover Simon Mellors, who had also killed his previous partner in 1999. Mellors had beat Pearl Black, 36, with an iron bar at her Bramcote … Read more