Another catch and release success

The Guardian reports:

The man shot dead by police after he stabbed two people in on Sunday left prison only days ago and had previously been noted by police as having a “fascination with dying in the name of terrorism”, it has emerged.

Sudesh Amman, whose attack on Streatham High Road left one person initially in a life-threatening condition, was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack. He had been freed after serving half of his sentence of more than three years for the possession and distribution of extremist material.

Jailed aged 18 in December 2018, Amman had been released after serving part of his three year and four month sentence, but was deemed sufficiently high that he was under special monitoring by police.

So he was sentenced to 40 months in prison but they let him out after 13 months, and within a few dozen hours he went on an attempted killing spree.

Call me old fashioned, but I think releasing people early who have expressed a clear desire to people is a bad idea.