A damning report into the parole system was published today, more than three years after a woman died on the Tholt-y-Will Road when she was a struck by an unroadworthy car driven by repeat offender Donovan Kitching, who was out of custody on parole.

Gwen Valentine’s son Stuart, who was walking with his mother and her fiance when she was killed on April 26, 2014, said the report showed Kitching’s ’24 hours of madness’ that led to the tragedy need not have occurred.

At a press conference, he told reporters that he had been profoundly shocked by some of the details that emerged during the public inquiry.

And in a prepared statement, he said he had been through ’three years of hell’ with no respite.

He said: ’This was a systemic failure, not an individual one. Nobody has resigned or been dismissed, and they should not.’

Tomorrow’s Isle of Man Examiner will include more coverage on the report.