Wendell Baker

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Wendell Baker was jailed For Life in 2013 after The Attack on 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and lock you in a closet

A "dangerous" rapist has been acquitted for the release from prison, without the relatives of his deceased victim be informed, Bbc News has learned.

Wendell Baker received a sentence of life imprisonment in 2013, for The Attack on 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and lock you in a closet.

The Parole Board after a hearing in April.

But, MS Backwell's son, said he only learned about the result of a Newspaper Reporter .

The Ministry of justice, Mr Backwell for the failure to contact him and asked the Parole Board to reconsider the decision to release Baker, who claimed it was "irrational" and not in accordance with The Evidence .

He was sentenced in 2013 for a second attempt, made possible by changes to the "Double Jeopardy " laws, has been acquitted in the year 1999, when a judge wrongly excluded vital DNA Evidence .

Hazel Backwell was left too scared To Live alone, after The Attack ,

Mrs Backwell East London house, died in the year 2002, five years after the Baker had broken, the pensioners, where he beat and raped her and locked her in a closet.

sentenced him to life imprisonment, judge Peter Rook, said Baker had carried out a brutal and vicious attack and was a "dangerous man" who would remain so for many years.

But April, who had served 63-year-old to the eight-and-a-half-year minimum term of his sentence, including time on remand, so that a probation panel will hear an phone in order to decide if he could safely freed.

The Panel found Evidence of a parole officer, a forensic psychologist, and Baker himself, as well as examination of the information in a dossier on his case.

the Parole Board guidelines have indicated, The Victim of A Crime , or the relatives, if The Victim is deceased, should be entitled to make a statement for a parole hearing describing how your family were affected.

But Mr Backwell was never contacted to be A Journalist , to him, rang the bell, after the Board had announced its decision that Baker was as "suitable" for release.

His wife, Margaret, said it was a "total disaster" and said she felt "sick, and very, very angry".

"We knew he was going to be finally released, and was told in 2013 that we will be notified before he was going to set you up for the release," She Said .

"to hear So, he had already made and a complete shock was released. "

government sources said in 2013, the police had failed to Mr Backwell the contact details of The National Probation Service (NPS), which is responsible for ensuring that The Victim updated, and although efforts have been made to trace they were with him before the parole hearing-"not successful".

A Ministry of justice spokesman Mrs backwell's family said, " you should have found out, in this way," and that would be updated.

prisons, parole board, walthamstow

Source of news: bbc.com