Soham murder recommendations 'not made'
Soham murder recommendations 'not made'
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Wednesday, 16, Jul 2008 07:39
A number of the recommendations regarding police forces sharing data made after the Soham murders have not been implemented, a report has said.
The Home Office published the findings of a review into the sharing of criminal information today.
Sir Ian Magee was commissioned by the then-home secretary John Reid in 2007 to put together an independent review of the recording and sharing of criminality data.
And he said that more than a third of the Soham recommendations had not been implemented and that the figure was a "matter of concern".
The delay in creating a single police database for England and Wales meant "we are still living with at least some of the risks", he added.
While the home secretary Jacqui Smith said that there was "more to do".
The Bichard Inquiry made its recommendations four years ago after Holy Wells and Jessica Chapman were killed by Ian Huntley in Soham, Cambridgeshire.
After he was jailed it emerged that he had been accused of a series of sex crimes while living in Grimsby, but Humberside police failed to properly record the allegations and Cambridgeshire police failed to ask for any information about Huntley when they vetted him for the job of school caretaker.