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Prison staff who went on strike in protest told the BBC how laxity inside jails was undermining morale and presenting a growing security risk.

Residents have criticised officers for their “laxity and unprofessionalism” in dealing with the crime.

Yet even that laxity proved too constraining for Saret, who chafed at being hemmed in, often to the point of self-sabotage.

Conservative politicians still fear reforming the break will foster fiscal laxity at home and indirectly elsewhere in Europe.

As it turned out, of course, Lee’s stabbing death seems to have had nothing to do with street crime or prosecutorial laxity or coddled criminals or “repeat violent offenders.”