The Prime Minister has been told to resign for releasing a prisoner who killed a man following Labour’s early release scheme.
Barrister Steven Barret told GB News that Sir Keir Starmer is “directly responsible” for the death of a man after the prisoner killed him on the day he was released.
The barrister said the murder of that man is “directly attributable” to Starmer’s actions and his early release policy.
Liam Mathews, 26, was released early from HMP Holme House in Stockton-on-Tees on 18 September, Barret said the murder of that man was “totally unnecessary” which “wasn’t unforeseeable.”
Hours after Mathews was released from prison he killed Lewis Bell, 26 who is a father and has one child.
The police launched an investigation and a man hunt who was
The father of one was hunted down “like prey” by Mathews who then performed a “brutal” knife attack over a drug dispute.
Teesside Crown Court found Mathews guilty of murder and prior to this he was jailed for 22 months for stamping and kicking on someone during a violent street fight.
Present Emily Carver said that Starmer could say there is not enough space in prisons, the barrister said, “Clearly tosh.”
Barret told GB News, “If we can create Nightingale hospitals overnight, we can create Nightingale prisons overnight.”
He said, “I’ve never known a sitting Prime Minister who we could directly link to a death.”
The Ministry of Justice said Labours early release policy is as a result of what they “inherited” and that prisons were “days from collapse.”
An MoJ spokesman said: “Had that happened, the police would have been forced to stop making arrests, and the public would have been put at unconscionable risk.”
“We had no choice but to introduce an emergency early release programme,” they added.
