Dominic Raab rebukes Parole Board for release of Baby P’s mother

Tracey Connelly will be released from prison after the board rejects Raab's appeal against the decision

Dominic Raab has launched a scathing attack on the Parole Board after it rejected his appeal against the decision to free the mother of Baby P, who died after months of abuse.

The justice secretary had claimed that the decision to release Tracey Connelly, who was jailed indefinitely with a minimum term of five years in May 2009, should be reconsidered on the grounds of irrationality, but a judge upheld the original decision.