Damilola Taylor killer Rickie Preddie back behind bars
RICKIE Preddie, 24, one of the brothers convicted of killing the 10-year-old Damilola Taylor 12 years ago has been recalled to prison for a second time for breaking the terms of his release.
Preddie has only been out of Pentonville jail for 16 days. He left prison on January 25.
He was originally released in September 2010. The following March he was sent back to prison for breaching the terms of his release. This time, he has broken the rules by entering Southwark, breaching a late night curfew and socialising with individuals on a list of banned contacts.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “At the request of the Ministry of Justice, police attended an address in London yesterday evening and arrested a man in his 20s for a recall to prison.”
Gary Trowsdale, managing director of the Damilola Taylor Trust, said there was no evidence Preddie had reformed. He said:
“What can we do, though? The system is the system, and the system is flawed.”
Is it? Rickie Preddie’s brother Danny Preddie, now 23, was released in September last year. He has not gone back to prison. The children who kill a child can never escape their crime…
Posted: 10th, February 2012 | In: News Comments (23) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
March 25th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
I’m rickys girlfriend I have his child I will be making sure he doesn’t go back to jail people need to take into consideration that he hasn’t actully commited a crime “broke the law” to be back in jail
March 25th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
People need to leave the preddie brothers alone they served there sentence and its a waste of tax payers money putting ricky back in jail just for “being in south london” there names have been tarnished its not fair that every little thing they do is reported. Maxiene carr the ian huntley accomplis’s name isn’t in the paper everywe why? And why isit that everytime there in the paper richard tayor has something to say. The man needs to go back to africa and get on with what he has got left of his life
February 11th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Oh I see, sorry Emma. His ear was sliced off? If he’s being violent it doesn’t bode well! It’s interesting how when some offenders go straight, they GO straight, and others seem to self-destruct.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
No. As an example of serious breaches of the contempt of court act during my studies.
February 11th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
What do you remember it from the time?
February 11th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
J – can’t remember the suspect’s name – it was back in the 80s. However, Kelvin MacKenzie not only ended up with a fine for The Sun but a pretty sizable one for himself also.
February 11th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Who was the suspect? Yes, I couldn’t quite believe it when it said the people who had been arrested. The newspaper’s got some need to preach about Broken Britain.
February 11th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Yeah, and he was rightly imprisoned for it (Venables). However, Preddie’s links to gangs and his refusal to stay away from criminal associates, poses a greater immediate risk to the public. Particularly as he has been known to have been violent fairly recently.
As for The Sun arrests, I tittered away to myself when the press release from NI came out and emphasised the need for due process and fair trials. I mean, this is a publication that stuck a photo of a murder suspect on its front page before the suspect was due to take part in an identity parade.
February 11th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
It says on The Guardian website that John Kay is one of those arrested.
February 11th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
But even though Venables offences were in his own room, they were damaging. He got off on it and it was damaging.
February 11th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Yes.
February 11th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I’d be the first to demand a second chance for Ricky Preddie had he shown a tiny bit of interest in living a lawful life. And this isn’t like Venables whose offending was in the confines of his own room (albeit in a serious and disturbing fashion). This involves brazen meetings with known criminal associates. Moreover, he hasn’t even managed to stay away from violence while in prison. His ear was sliced off in a prison fight at one stage and his most recent parole had to be posponed due to more violence on his part. The fact is, he doesn’t even seem to have the intention of living a decent life.
As for The Sun – well, it is getting its commupance now isn’t it?
February 11th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
… Anyway… Children who kill children can’t escape their crime as much as a Sun journalist who killed his lady can go back to his job at the newspaper.
February 11th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Haha! That told me!
February 11th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Yeah – early death is a bit of an occupational hazard if you are hard into criminal gang activity.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:31 am
I think I know what you’re referring to agw.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:16 am
Early death?
February 11th, 2012 at 8:47 am
J – he’s clearly still involved in gang activity (or at least appears to be). Given he couldn’t even go a month without breaking his parole conditions; I’d say there’s a good chance that his involvement with pro-criminal peers is more than merely social.
Now we have a situation where he may have to be kept in prison until his sentence expires (next May) and then released completely (ie won’t be on license) and free to hang around with whomever he wishes. Something tells me that Ricky Preddie is heading for a life in and out of prison or an early death.
February 11th, 2012 at 7:54 am
Oh dear!
J, it means he is too thick to realise the authorities are watching as he re-establishes dangerous liaisons
Does that sound familiar?
February 11th, 2012 at 12:13 am
Why does it not bode well?
February 10th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Update (sorry for three posts..). Seems this recall is for the same reason as last time. Entering an exclusion zone and associating with people he was specifically prohibited from seeing (i.e. gang members). So no crime but still serious. It doesn’t bode well for any lawful life on eventual release either.
February 10th, 2012 at 1:40 pm
What is more, he even got his release date put back after the first recall for fighting in prison. My sympathy is limited for this one I’m afraid. He has shown he can’t behave. The main issue here, in my opinion, is that they were finally convicted when they were adults (not the 12 and 13 year old kids they were at the time of the offence) so ended up spending all their time in an adult prison rather than the more therapeutic environment of a SCH/STC. They were able to become more firmly engaged in gang activity as older teenagers between committing the offence and eventual conviction. And given they are not lifers, they wouldn’t have even had to go through the usual barrage of tests and behaviour management courses in prison to secure release.
February 10th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I don’t understand why he was released again after recall. He is on a determinate sentence (8 years I think). He should have remained in prison until the end of it after being recalled the first time.
I think he benefited from the parlous state of prison overcrowding.
I hope he remains in prison now until his sentence expires.