'High risk' fears over freedom bid launched by Baby P mother Tracey Connelly
The 43-year-old's toddler son died in 2007 after suffering more than 50 injuries.
Tracey Connelly.
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Baby P's mum is high risk if she is freed from prison and allowed to see children, experts have warned as Tracey Connelly launches a fresh bid for freedom.
The now 43-year-old's toddler son Peter was 17-months-old when he died in 2007. Over an eight-month period, the tragic tot had suffered more than 50 injuries
The Mirror reports she is now launching a fresh bid for freedom just months after being thrown back in jail for breaching the conditions of her licence.
Connelly herself does not even support a full unconditional release back into the public, the Parole Board will be told. A judgement was published ordering that a two-day parole hearing is heard in public.
In it, the Parole Board said: 'In the current psychological risk assessment, it is assessed that her risk of violence remains low. But risk would be high and potentially imminent if she were to have access to children while other risk factors are present.
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Ms Connelly, in interview, has stated that she will not be seeking unconditional release due to the support she would lose."
Connelly was jailed at the Old Bailey in 2009 for causing or allowing the death of Peter. She was released on licence in 2013 before being recalled for breaching parole conditions by selling nude snaps online in 2015.
Connelly – who had parole bids in 2015, 2017 and 2019 rejected – was then freed on licence in July 2022. She was hauled back to jail in September for flouting the conditions of her release while living at a bail hostel.
It was not clear how she breached her licence but she was placed on curfew and had to disclose relationships. Connelly's internet and phone use was also monitored and she was barred from certain places.
She had reinvented herself on a WeightWatchers forum as a woman named Connie. In documents, it is claimed she suffers PTSD and was subjected to 'bullying and aggression' after her recall to prison.
Her solicitor fought for the upcoming parole hearing to be held in private. The report states: 'He submits that a public hearing will only exacerbate these issues."
He also stated he believes that "will have a significant and detrimental effect upon Ms Connelly's ability to give effective and accurate evidence at the hearing.'
But the Parole Board decided the hearing would be public. Peter – initially referred to in news reports as Baby P – suffered 50 injuries, including a broken back and fractured ribs, at his home in Tottenham, North London.
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The trial detailed missed opportunities to save Peter, and the way his mother stood by. Connelly, stepdad Steven Barker and Barker's brother Jason Owen were jailed over his death.
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