FURY AT FAILINGS THAT LEFT ZARA'S KILLER ON STREETS

FAMILY'S DISTRESS OVER 'LITANY OF ERRORS'

- Martin Bentham and John Dunne

"Incompetence": Zara Aleena was killed in Ilford as she walked home last year

WOMEN and girls are not safe on the streets of London, the family of murdered law graduate Zara Aleena warned today as they hit out at probation service "incompetence" and other failings which left her killer free to strike.

Jordan McSweeney, a "serious and career criminal" with a history of violence, was wrongly assessed as a medium risk instead of high risk when he was freed from a ninth prison term and should have already been returned to jail for breaching the terms of his release. But delays meant that he was still free when he sexually assaulted and murdered Ms Aleena, 35, left, in Ilford as she walked home in the early hours on June 26 last year after a night out at a bar. McSweeney, who had never met Ms Aleena, had trailed other lone women earlier that night before launching his brutal and fatal attack on her.

She was left badly beaten, struggling to breathe and partially naked and died in hospital later that morning.