My community sentence ended on 26 December 2025. That date matters. From that point on, the Probation Service no longer had any power over my liberty, my licence, or my…
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By Kieron JH The Ministry of Justice is now telling some Freedom of Information requesters to upload a scan of their passport and a utility bill before it will even…
My sentence ended at midnight. That’s the personal milestone. The public-interest issue is bigger and uglier: Probation is stretched past breaking point, so it’s doing what any overloaded system does.…
In November 2025, a member of the public, Jamie Halliday, submitted a Freedom of Information request about the North East Mayor’s overseas trip to Japan. The request was made via…