Day Release: How a Double Killer Walked Free and Murdered Again
On a quiet July afternoon in 2013, a 66-year-old Good Samaritan heard shouting from his neighbour’s house and went to help. Minutes later he lay dying on his own front lawn, his throat cut open.
The man who killed him, Ian John McLoughlin, had walked out of an open prison that same morning on his first day of temporary release after more than 21 years inside for murder. He had already killed twice before.
In this episode, Alexander Lawson examines McLoughlin’s three killings, the catastrophic failures that allowed him back onto the streets, and the official inquiry that branded the decision…
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