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<p>Joseph McCann has now been charged with a number of serious sexual offences committed
on or after 21 April 2019. At the time he was being supervised by the National Probation
Service (NPS) on licence, as part of the sentence of imprisonment for public protection
which he had received In 2008. The NPS will now review how Mr McCann was managed in
the community, in accordance with the Probation Serious Further Offence (SFO) Review
Procedures, in order to identify whether there were any deficiencies in practice which
must be addressed by means of a formal action plan.</p><p> </p><p>We are looking into
the circumstances surrounding his release.He was released on 15 February 2019, in
accordance with the sentence of the Court on 25 January 2018, having served half the
three-year determinate sentence for burglary which the Court imposed, less time he
had already spent on remand.</p>
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