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Page last updated at 04:43 GMT, Thursday, 5 November 2009

US officers 'failed Dugard'

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Parole officers interviewed the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard some 60 times without realising anything was wrong, a report has said.

The report said Phillip Garrido, who was on parole for rape, had wrongly been classified as low-risk, while corrections officials had missed dozens of chances to discover Dugard and her daughters.

Rajesh Mirchandani reports from Los Angeles.

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