A coroner still believes there is a risk to women and children due to the Probation Service’s “insufficient” management of dangerous offenders following the inquests for the victims of Damien Bendall.
Bendall was given a whole life order last December for murdering his partner, Terri Harris, her children, John Paul and Lacey Bennett, and Lacey’s friend, Connie Gent, in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, on September 19 2021.
The inquests into their deaths in October heard that a total of 57 “very stark acts or omissions” by the Probation Service and Capita PLC in their management of Bendall “accumulatively” contributed to the killings, including him being graded as posing a low risk to partners and children.