After the Parole Board determined that Tracey Connelly was eligible for parole, she was released from prison in July 2022.
Nonetheless, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has now approved her recall to prison.
Connelly was sentenced to prison in 2009 for her role in her son Peter’s death, which occurred on August 3, 2007, in their Tottenham, north London, home.
Peter, nicknamed Baby P during his mother’s Old Bailey trial, sustained over fifty injuries, including shattered backs and fractured ribs.
Since the child was on the at-risk register and had 60 visits from social workers, police, and medical specialists over eight years, the case generated uproar.
After learning that Connelly was deemed to be at “low risk of committing a further offence” and that the plan had the agreement of probation officers and prison officials, the Parole Board determined in March 2022 that Connelly was eligible for release.
Dominic Raab, the justice secretary at the time, appealed the decision, but the board rejected it.
The board denied Connelly’s three prior requests for her release in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
