“I’m afraid my family are going to be murdered.”
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17-year-old Tom Haynes is fearful of his father, Christopher, who was jailed for coercive and controlling behaviour against Tom’s mother.
Christopher Haynes is due to leave prison next week - seven months into a 21-month sentence, as part of the early release scheme in England and Wales.
He speaks to Channel 4 News about the abuse his family suffered, and pleads for the government to reconsider the scheme.
During his father’s sentencing the judge said “it is perfectly plain that over many years, … you controlled her… effectively stealing her very identity”.
The Ministry of Justice has written to Tom’s mother Karen to explain that “detailed plans will be put in place to manage any risks” and claims it’s introduced, more widely, the “toughest ever range of licence conditions.”
The MoJ told Channel 4 News that its thoughts are with the family but added: “we inherited prisons on the brink of running out of cells, and had we failed to act, police would have had to halt arrests.”
Haynes is also subject to an indefinite restraining order.
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