Senior police officer condemns bail decision involving convicted paedophile
England and Wales’ most senior police officer, Mark Rowley, said pressure to reduce the remand prison population is leaving officers feeling constrained after a convicted paedophile was allowed to return to a flat overlooking a children’s playground. Zafer Dogan was later jailed for creating sexualised images of women and girls.
Mark Rowley, the country’s most senior police officer, criticised the court system after a convicted paedophile was granted bail and allowed to return to a flat overlooking a children’s playground, The Guardian reported. Rowley said officers felt “hamstrung” by pressure to reduce the number of prisoners held on remand. He argued that this pressure had resulted in “dangerous and prolific offenders” being granted bail, according to the report.
The case involved Zafer Dogan, who was jailed for two years and four months on Thursday after being convicted of taking thousands of pictures of women and girls. He used artificial-intelligence technology to turn the images into nude pictures for his sexual gratification. The report does not provide details of the bail decision, identify the court involved or say when Dogan was allowed to return to the flat.
It also does not include a response from the courts or explain what changes Rowley is seeking.
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