Frances Lawrence was "deeply upset" to discover that the man who stabbed her husband to death had been allowed out of jail for a day recently as part of a resettlement programme to prepare him for eventual release.
Learco Chindamo, now 25, was jailed "indefinitely" in 1996 when aged 16 after being found guilty of killing the headmaster outside St George's Roman Catholic School in Maida Vale, west London. Mrs Lawrence helped persuade the Court of Appeal that Chindamo's minimum sentence should not be reduced below 12 years, but she was not informed when he was released.
How would young people feel if they knew the person who had murdered a family member had been set free? How would they react if they saw them back in their neighbourhood?
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