Vanessa George: Parole Board defends decision to release Britain’s ‘most prolific female paedophile’

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Parole Board officials have defended the decision to release a woman dubbed Britain’s worst female paedophile. Luke Pollard, Labour MP for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, said: “Vanessa George’s crimes against children cannot be forgotten and it’s very hard to forgive her for them. “I am very concerned about the safety of our city’s children with the imminent release of Vanessa George and have today written to the justice secretary asking for the decision to release Vanessa George to be urgently reviewed in light of the public outcry and continuing risk to children that I believe she poses.” Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events Before her 2008 arrest George was part of a paedophile ring, nicknaming herself “paedo whore mum”. Commenting on the role of the Parole Board, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “It is critical that people who conduct this complex and difficult task on behalf of us all are free to do so dispassionately and objectively on the evidence, however prominent the particular case may be in the press.”