Killings blamed on the shake-up
DAVID Braddon was under the supervision of private company Working Links when he breached his probation order eight times before murdering a teenager.
The 26-year-old was serving a community sentence for assaulting a police officer and drug offences.
The killer, of Caerphilly, had taken 50 Valium tablets, cocaine and alcohol when he beat Conner Marshall to death in Porthcawl, South Wales, in 2015. His mother Nadine said without privatisation he might be alive: “There wouldn’t have been cuts to the service.”
Nicholas Churton, 67, was killed in Wrexham in 2017 by Jordan Davidson, who was under the watch of a community rehabilitation company.
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas said the probation changes “contributed to the failure of supervision” that led to Mr Churton’s death.