BABY P’s mum Tracey Connelly is back in jail after breaching the terms of her
parole.
Connelly, who let her lover and his brother torture to death her toddler son,
is suspected of offering porn pictures of herself to perverts thrilled by
her notoriety — cashing in on her appalling crimes.
A source said: “Authorities believe she was uploading images of herself and
trying to flog them — possibly to sick perverts getting a kick out of her
notoriety.
“It doesn’t get any more depraved than this. She clearly wasn’t ready to be
released into the community.”
Connelly was yesterday locked up at women’s jail HMP Styal in Cheshire ahead
of a Parole Board hearing to be held within days.
She was freed 18 months ago on licence from a minimum five-year jail sentence
for letting her lover Steven Barker and his paedophile brother Jason Owen
torture to death 17-month-old toddler Peter in Haringey, North London.
News of her parole in October 2013 led to widespread protests from victims’
groups and others.
Her mother Mary O’Connor said at the time that Connelly should never be freed.
Mary, 63, who has previously said she was “robbed” of her grandson, added:
“She wants to live in Kent and wants me to move there with her. But I said,
‘No’.”
Peter Saunders, of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood,
yesterday said Connelly’s case exposed the scandal of Britain’s soft justice
system.
He added: “This a complete and utter mess. Connelly’s own mother said she
wasn’t ready for release.
“It screams out there is no genuine rehabilitation for this type of offence.
We see people that have committed these dreadful crimes are coming out and
continuing along a similar pattern.
“Perhaps our prison system isn’t working for these types of offenders? The
justice system has a lot to answer for.
“In Connelly’s case, people will be asking ‘is she mad or bad?’
“She’s already been condemned by the world. All we can say is that she is
someone who needs serious help because she is dreadfully, dreadfully
inadequate.”
Connelly took a new name after her release on licence from Durham’s Low Newton
jail.
But her plea for total anonymity and a new identity was rejected.
Connelly’s release on a life-long licence came with the proviso that any
breach of her parole terms would see her returned to jail.
The Ministry of Justice said yesterday: “Offenders on licence are subject to
strict controls and conditions and are liable to be recalled to prison if
they breach them.”
Connelly has reportedly been living in a seaside town.
She now wears fashionable glasses and her once greasy jetblack hair had been
dyed brunette.
Connelly, who has ballooned in weight, previously horrified women at her bail
hostel with her lack of remorse over Peter’s death.
She became known as a prankster who loved lewd jokes and was desperate to find
a new boyfriend. One ex-friend said: “It was as though Peter’s death never
happened.”
Within a fortnight of her release she was pictured strolling around doing her
Christmas shopping.
Connelly went into town from her bail hostel with a friend and nipped into
Aldi and Poundland.
The horrific nature of toddler Peter’s death shocked Britain.
He suffered more than 50 injuries over an eight-month period — despite being
on Haringey Council’s at-risk register.
Peter also had 60 visits at his grim home in Tottenham, North London, from
social workers, police and health professionals.
He was twice admitted to hospital suffering bruising and scratches.
The result of one medical examination concluded Peter was being systematically
abused.
But the council failed to take him away from Connelly and new boyfriend
Barker. In August 2007 an ambulance was called to Connelly’s home. Peter was
found in his cot, lifeless and wearing only a nappy.
A post-mortem revealed he swallowed a tooth after being punched.
The toddler’s other injuries included a broken back and ribs and mutilated
fingers.
At their trial, Owen and Barker were found guilty of “causing or allowing the
death of a child”. Connelly had pleaded guilty to the charge.
Both Owen and Connelly were cleared of murder due to insufficient evidence.
An Old Bailey jury found Barker not guilty of murder. In May 2009 Connelly was
ordered to be held indefinitely until “deemed no longer to be a risk to the
public and in particular to small children”. The minimum jail term was set
at five years.
Barker got 12 years for the Baby P case and a life sentence for raping a
two-year-old girl.
Owen was also jailed indefinitely and ordered to serve three years minimum.
Children’s charity the NSPCC said the sentences were far too lenient.
A damning inquiry into Haringey’s failings led to the sacking of Sharon
Shoesmith as the council’s head of children’s services.
Ed Balls, then Labour’s Education Secretary, initially suspended Ms Shoesmith
from her £133,000-a-year post. She was then fired by the council without
compensation in December 2008 after a report from regulator Ofsted exposed
how her department had failed to protect Peter.
But Ms Shoesmith’s lawyers argued she was the victim of “a flagrant breach of
natural justice’’ inspired by a media witch-hunt.
She later won an unfair dismissal claim and in June was paid £679,452
compensation.
The Court of Appeal ruled Ms Shoesmith, who is believed not to have worked
since the scandal, was “unfairly scapegoated”. Connelly, who was returned to
prison on Tuesday, is the latest in a string of criminals involved in child
killings to be recalled after getting parole.
Fellow Baby P abuser Owen was paroled in 2011 but sent back to jail after
breaching conditions.
Crack addict Owen was released again last year.
Jon Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, was also recalled to prison in
2010 for accessing images of child abuse.
The Sun revealed last month how he had recently signed up to a dating website.
Catalogue of abuse
MARCH 1, 2006: Peter is born.
JUNE 2006: Tracey Connelly in relationship with Steven Barker, who
later moves into her North London home.
DECEMBER 2006: Connelly arrested over bruises on Peter’s face. He is
taken into care but returned to her in January 2007.
APRIL 2007: Peter admitted to hospital with bruises, black eyes and
swelling to head.
MAY 2007: Peter back in hospital. Connelly is arrested again.
JUNE 2007: Barker’s brother Jason Owen moves into Connelly’s.
JULY 30, 2007: Social worker misses injuries to Peter after he is
smeared with chocolate.
AUGUST 2, 2007: Connelly told by cops she will not be prosecuted.
AUGUST 3, 2007: Baby Peter is found dead.
NOVEMBER 11, 2008: Owen and Barker found guilty of causing Peter’s
death after Connelly had admitted the charges.
MAY 1, 2009: Barker also convicted of raping a girl of two. He gets
life.
MAY 22, 2009: Connelly gets minimum five years for Peter’s death.
Barker gets 12 years and Owen’s term set at six years.
AUGUST 2011: Owen released from jail but returns in April 2013 for
breaching release conditions.
NOVEMBER 2013: Connelly released.
FEBRUARY 2015: Connelly recalled.
Baby P is let down yet again
Says NEVRES KAMAL, Haringey whistleblower
THE social worker who blew the whistle on Haringey Council’s failings said
yesterday Tracey Connelly is back where she belongs.
Nevres Kemal said: “I’m relieved she is now back in prison because she should
never have been let out in the first place.
“What that horrible woman did, allowing her child to be tortured to death,
deserves a much longer sentence.
“Baby P’s life was not valued and the outrage goes on. That boy has been
failed since his birth, he was failed then and he is still being failed by
the justice system now. It is a disgrace to his memory.
“Obviously nothing’s changed at Haringey. Just last month another baby at risk
died. What kind of world are we living in?
“You can’t legislate for how people behave but you can put systems in places.
“Kids die in every borough but there seems to be something specifically going
wrong in Haringey.
“Despite inquiries and all the money that has been spent, they still do not
seem to grasp the principles of social working.
“Nothing has really changed. They put a few people on gardening leave, brought
a few people in, but nothing has changed.”
“Haringey has a culture of cover-up and not just in the children services
department. They are so fearful that they are blinded to the fundamentals of
safe-guarding.
“There are kids on the at-risk register tonight who are suffering. They are
not safe — and they are not being protected.
“Alarm bells should be ringing. Because these people have not done their job,
abused babies are in their coffins.
“The problem is they are not getting the quality of social workers needed to
do the job. They are bringing in cheaper staff who are not from this
country.
“They are frankly useless. They are just not up to the job.”