when he was sentenced injanuary, a judge told gary haggarty he would normally have sent him to prisoneed to give evidence against others he said were involved in those crimes and had been working as a police informer when most of them were committed. relatives of his victims were stunned when he was sentenced to 6.5 years. what is justice in this country? it‘s designed to look after the criminal. how can a man convicted of that many crimes be set free into society? lawyers for haggarty wrote to the sentence review commissioners saying he should be released from prison as soon as possible because of time already served. he had served just over four years. today was to be his last behind bars. it is just over three months since gary haggarty appeared in the dock at court to be sentenced for a huge list of crimes. two days ago the sentence review commissioners issued a decision saying he could be released immediately, but the prison service had the final say. this morning lawyers acting for him to the prison service and warned if they did not agree to release him today, they would seek a

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