Sam Ashworth-Hayes Sam Ashworth-Hayes

Britain’s prisons aren’t working

HMP Manchester (photo: Getty)

Last April police officers found the bodies of two women, Mihrican Mustafa and Henriett Szucs, stored in Zahid Younis’s freezer. Before their murder Younis had served two jail sentences. The first came in 2005 after he married a 14-year-old in a Walthamstow mosque, got his child bride pregnant, and assaulted her.

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