Labour left 98 per cent of victims in the dark when 179 criminals were let out of jail by mistake, it has emerged.
Only three involved in the cases were notified of the Prison Service’s blunders.
The Conservatives, who obtained the data under Freedom of Information laws, said it showed Justice Secretary David Lammy‘s apology over the scandal was ‘not worth the paper it was written on’.
An official report published in April showed that there were 179 cases of inmates being freed by mistake between April last year and March.
Of the 179, 14 victims were part of the Probation Service’s Victim Contact
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