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The killer of headmaster Philip Lawrence has been arrested for an alleged violent mugging months after he was freed from prison.
Learco Chindamo, 30, knifed the 48-year-old father-of-four as the teacher tried to prevent him and his gang attacking another boy.
He was controversially released in July after serving 14 years of a life sentence for the murder, which happened outside St George's Roman Catholic School in Maida Vale, west London, in 1995.
Chindamo was questioned by police on Wednesday night on suspicion of robbery after being arrested in the early hours of Wednesday at his home in Catford, south London.
A man in his 20s was allegedly robbed of cash in the incident in Camden, north London, on November 13.
Chindamo had claimed on his release he would spent the rest of his life "atoning" for his crime.
Mr Lawrence's widow Frances told The Daily Telegraph the news was "very, very distressing on many levels".
She said her family had been "hung out to dry" by the British justice system.
"My first thought was 'My God'," she said. "I feel shocked.
"I find it odd that he is arrested so soon after the 'atonement'. What does it say about the justice system and the notion of what is justice?"
After knifing Mr Lawrence, Chindamo went on to brag about the killing, but he was convicted of the murder in October 1996, jailed indefinitely and ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years.
Chindamo, who lived in Italy as a child, avoided being deported after his release after he successfully argued doing so would infringe his human rights.
His arrest will raise questions about the monitoring of offenders released back into communities and reopen the debate about deporting foreign criminals.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "All offenders subject to probation supervision on release from prison have to adhere to a set of strict conditions.
"They are subject to recall to custody if they breach their conditions or their behaviour indicates that it is no longer safe for them or for the public if they remain in the community.
"Once an offender has been recalled by the Probation Service it is then for the police to return them to custody.
"For indeterminate sentence offenders, it falls to the Parole Board to determine when they should be re-released."
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