Harry Stopes

Harry Stopes lives in Berlin.

Short Cuts: Life on Licence

Harry Stopes, 19 December 2019

John​ is one of more than 250,000 people in Britain living under the supervision of the probation service. He got out of prison in April 2018, when his sentence still had some years to run. I met him while I was reporting on the shortcomings of the law on joint enterprise. In 2005 he had been convicted for murder after a man died as a result of injuries received during a burglary John was...

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