Published: 1:09PM GMT 09 Mar 2010
Merseyside Police were meant to be keeping tabs on Chapman.
But after realising he had vanished from his Kirkby home early last year, they
left it nine months before issuing a national wanted alert.
Today, a spokesman said: ”Merseyside Police can confirm that an internal
review was carried out following the arrest of Peter Chapman in October last
year.
”Following the review, a number of procedural improvements were identified
and subsequently implemented.
”However, in view of the public interest and concerns raised following the
conviction of Peter Chapman and to ensure complete transparency in terms of
this particular matter, the force has referred it to the Independent Police
Complaints Commission.”
Chapman, sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in jail, was last seen by police
at his home on August 29, 2008.
An officer spoke to him on the telephone on September 24 that year about a
forklift truck course he was doing.
Merseyside Police said that, up to this point, he “had remained fully
compliant with his registration requirements” – forced on him by being on
the sex offenders register.
Police visited his home on January 6, 2009 to discuss a traffic matter but he
was not in.
Different officers were supposed to visit him a month later in line with his
sex parole checks but again he was not in.
The force maintains that officers then worked to establish his whereabouts
locally.
But it was not until September last year – just a month before he murdered
Ashleigh – that the police issued a nationwide wanted alert.
The force referred its handling and review of the Chapman case to the IPCC
after Home Secretary Alan Johnson demanded answers.
The minister called on the police to “respond” and said lessons “needed to be
learned” following Ashleigh’s murder.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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