Raab’s rage as he loses bid to keep Baby P’s mum in prison

THE mother of Baby P will be set free within weeks after the Parole Board yesterday refused the Justice Secretary’s bid to block her release.

Dominic Raab reacted with anger, calling Tracey Connelly ‘pure evil’ and the board’s refusal ‘irrational’, after it announced a judge had rejected his attempt to stop her release.

Yesterday it emerged that sexobsessed Connelly, 40, had recently deceived prison officers about a secret relationship with an inmate. Despite this, a parole judge ruled she should still be released.

A member of Baby P’s family said last night

Connelly would ‘never learn’, adding: ‘She should rot in prison.’ Connelly was jailed indefinitely in 2009 for causing or allowing the horrific death of her 17month-old son Peter, pictured. Her partner Steven Barker was convicted of murder and his brother Jason Owen found guilty of causing or allowing Peter’s death. Connelly was released in 2013 but recalled to prison less than two years later after breaching licence conditions by inciting ‘inappropriate sexualised behaviour’ in others.