Baby P’s mum’s fresh bid for freedom months after speaking about toddler’s death for the first time in 18 years
A parole hearing for Tracey Connelly, the mother of Baby P, will reconvene after a pause of several months to review evidence.
Baby P was 17-month-old Peter, who died in 2007 after months of abuse, with Connelly jailed for causing or allowing his death along with her then boyfriend Steven Barker and his brother Jason Owen.
She had been jailed in 2009 and was released in 2013, but since then she has twice been recalled to prison for breaching the terms of her licence, and last year a parole hearing to determine whether she still posed a risk started.
The case was adjourned so the parole board could look over evidence about Connelly's conduct in prison, and it will now be reconvened next month.
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A spokesperson for the Parole Board told The Sun: "A public oral hearing has been listed for the parole review of Tracey Connelly and is scheduled to take place in May 2026.
"Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.
"A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence. Protecting the public is our number one priority."
The Mirror reports that a two-day hearing has been scheduled between 20 and 21 May where an assessment of the risk Connelly poses will be made, as will a decision on whether she will be released from prison again.
Speaking at her parole hearing last year before it was adjourned, Connelly said she 'knew deep down' that Barker was abusing her son, but she 'wanted my prince charming and unfortunately my children paid for that'.
When asked if she still posed a risk to children, she said that she did if they were 'children in my care'.
"Given how bad I was at it, I have to always accept that there is always a risk if I am left looking after children, which I can’t see ever being the case," she had said.
"Am I a risk to children walking down the street? No."
She had also told the hearing that she would not enter into a relationship with someone with children or grandchildren they were in regular contact with.
She said: "I don’t want to be around other people’s children or grandchildren. I was s**t with my own, I don’t want to put anybody else at risk from me."
At the hearing she called herself a 'bad mother' who 'failed to protect' her own children.
The parole hearing also heard 'extremely moving' statements from Baby P's family.
Joe Harker