Jury blame probation service for death of five year-old

An inquest jury has blamed failures by probation service officers for the death of a five year-old boy who was beaten to death by his stepfather for losing a shoe. Malcolm Iheanacho, 41, should have been in secure accommodation but he was free to murder Alex Malcolm in Mountsfield Park, Hither Green, southeast London, in November 2016. Iheanacho has previous convictions and in 2010 he dropped an eight-month-old baby he was holding as he threatened the child’s mother with a…