Convicted sex criminal won’t be monitored after release thanks to law system loophole
Steven Ling, who raped and killed a women in 1997, is now eligible for parole but has not signed the sex offenders register, meaning he won't be subject to the normal strict monitoring of sex criminals
A SEX killer is due to be released without being monitored on the sex offenders register because of a legal loophole.
Farm worker Steven Ling raped Joanne Tulip, 29, and stabbed her to death in December 1997.
The lifer is now eligible for parole but because he was not charged with rape he was not forced to sign the register.
That means he would not be subject to the normal strict monitoring of convicted sex criminals.
Joanne’s mum Doreen Soulsby, 73, who won a change in the law to close the loophole in future, said: “Nobody will know what he has done.”
The Ministry of Justice said if released Ling would be “robustly risk- assessed and subject to strict conditions including close supervision”.
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