Serial predator should never have been freed, victim says after partner's death

Kelly Faiers was unlawfully killed after being coerced into taking excessive sleeping tablets; Krystyna and other victims suffered prolonged sexual abuse, trauma, homelessness, and loss of employment and social connections.

For four decades, Richard Scatchard moved through the world as a predator whose methods never changed, yet whose freedom was periodically restored by a system that measured risk in diminishing increments. When he was released from four life sentences in 2013, the conditions placed upon him were only as strong as the honesty of a man who had never once demonstrated it. Kelly Faiers died in 2023 not because the system lacked rules, but because it lacked the means to see through a practiced deceiver — and the question her death leaves behind is whether any framework of supervision can contain a p

Serial predator should never have been freed, victim says after partner's death

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