Yes, I know there\’s a system of spent convictions (although I\’ve no idea whether this one was or is) but even if this one was spent it\’s a strange job to offer:
A council has apologised for employing a senior social worker knowing that she had previously been found guilty of hiring a hitman to kill her husband.
Lynda Barnes was hired by Bath and North East Somerset Council after giving a “highly sanitised” version of events that led to her receiving a two-year suspended jail sentence for conspiracy to murder.
The truth came to light only when a judge hearing a child protection case was told that she had tried to persuade a colleague to lie under oath.
Don’t social workers have to have a CRB check?
Yes – the point is that the council knew about the conviction but employed her anyway.
The judge didn’t see any need to punish her for conspiracy to murder, so why not hire her? Pathetic, the lot of them.
She sounds like she’s admirably suited to a career in the SS.