Where he said people convicted of terrorism offences shouldnt be released from prison early. The practice of automatic Early Release, where you cut a sentence half and let really serious violent offenders early, simply isnt working, and i think youve had some very good evidence of how that isnt working, im afraid, with this case. In other news, millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2. 7 percent more for rail tickets in the new year. One of the two People Killed in the London Bridge attack has been named as Cambridge University graduate jack merritt. The 25 year old is believed to have been a course co ordinator for learning together, an organisation specialising in prison based education. It held the rehabilitation conference at fishmongers hall in london, yesterday, attended by the attacker usman khan. Jack merritts father described his son as a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. in the last half an hour, assistant commissioner neil basu of the m