UK News 24-03-2005 who: 19 year-old killer Peter Williams what: Convicted of murdering Nottingham jeweller Marian Bates during armed robbery where: Crown Court, STAFFORD when: Monday snippet: "The Daily Telegraph can disclose that he should not even have been on the streets at the time," says reporter Nick Britten. "He had been released from a young offenders institution for burglary on Sept 10 and because of a high risk of re-offending was under curfew and was electronically tagged." Mrs Bates`s widower says Steve Green, Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire, is a "menace to law and order" but Bob Quick, the Chief Constable of Surrey, speaks out in his colleague`s defence, saying officers have to spend "nearly 90 per cent of their time" filling out forms because government-imposed bureaucracy has "increased exponentially". [... more]

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