'I've never encountered a defendant like this': Man released after now-banned sentence is BACK in jail

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A man handed a now-banned IPP sentence is back behind bars after threatening two women during a terrifying burglary. Arming himself with a large meat cleaver, Jason Edwards pushed his way inside a young woman's home - then went about searching every room and shouted at two of the women's friends who were visiting her at the time.

The woman who lived there, aged in her 20s, was out at the time, but called police when she was alerted to Edwards at her front door by a doorbell camera notification on her mobile phone. READ MORE: Forest Bank prison wings locked down after fight ends with 'inmate being slashed across the face' READ MORE: Emotional scenes at memorial to teenager Nathaniel Shani on what would have been his 15th birthday Edwards, 36, was jailed earlier this week for the 'disturbing' incident.

Minshull Street Crown Court heard that he was handed an imprisonment for public protection sentence in 2008 for wounding, but was released in 2014 after a successful Parole Board review.

The IPP sentencing provision, (imprisonment for public protection) introduced by the then Labour Home Secretary, David Blunkett, in 2005, was intended to protect the public from those judged to be the most dangerous and persistent criminals.