Diana Parkes & Hetti Barkworth-Nanton meet the Secretary of State for Justice, Dominic Raab
March 10, 2023
On 9th March, Diana Parkes and Hetti Barkworth-Nanton met with the Secretary of State for Justice, Dominic Raab.
The meeting came after the pair launched a high-profile campaign in March calling on the Justice Secretary to block the early automatic release of Robert Brown.
Statement from Diana and Hetti following their meeting with the Justice Secretary:
“We are thankful for the time the Secretary of State and his team spent with us yesterday. We welcome his assurance that he will request a complete risk assessment of Robert Brown’s release under the new powers he has available to him. We are very encouraged by this important development.
We are tremendously grateful for the public and political support we have received and will continue to campaign and rally public support until we’ve reached our goal to keep another dangerous man off the street.”
I was humbled to meet Diana Parkes, the mother of Joanna Simpson yesterday and extend my deepest sympathies for her irrevocable loss.
It’s my duty to do everything I can to keep dangerous offenders behind bars and pledged to review the details of this case very carefully. pic.twitter.com/sOgz9omUSG
— Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) March 10, 2023
In a statement, Dominic Raab said: “Joanna Simpson was brutally killed in a heinous and despicable act which has changed the lives of her family and friends forever.
“I was humbled to meet with Joanna’s mother and best friend today to extend my deepest sympathies for what her family has been through and assure her that I am giving this case my closest personal attention and will be reviewing it very carefully.”
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