Tagged - but free to kill: As report reveals nearly 6 in 10 tagged criminals break their curfew, one victim pays a horrifying price

The full extent of how thugs on electronic tags routinely breach their curfews to commit more crimes is exposed today.

A damning report reveals that nearly 60 per cent of offenders, supposedly confined to their homes, are free to walk the streets with impunity.

Yesterday the human cost of the system’s  failure was laid bare when a 15-year-old who repeatedly flouted his tagging order was jailed for killing an innocent student. 

The boy is said to have ripped off his tag just days before stabbing Steven Grisales, 21, who had told him off for throwing a conker. 

But the council charged with monitoring the curfew didn’t bother to recall him to court because the breach happened on the eve of the August Bank Holiday weekend. 

Last night, the parents of the murdered  scholarship student spoke of their horror that the 15-year-old had broken his curfew so many times but nothing was done.           More