Evil Tracey Connolly has reached out to her adult children as she desperately bids to become a free woman. The vile mum of tragic tot Baby P was left a “sobbing wreck” after her last bid for freedom was denied, and now she wants to “build bridges” with her adult children who “want nothing to do with her at all”.
Connolly is hoping she will be given the green light for release after making an emotive plea to the Parole Board for her release – and admitting she let her children down. Speaking in the hearing about how she had performed as a parent, she admitted: “I was a bad mother.”
She added: “I failed to protect them, I put my needs first. I took all my anger at the world out on my older children. I didn’t give them what they needed and they deserve a whole lot better than me.”
The older children at the time went into care in another outer London borough, and now are adults themselves.
She wrote to them at the time of her last failed bid, but until now, it is understood it has been “radio silence” from their mother.
An insider said: “This is why it doesn’t feel real. She only seems to get in touch when she needs to show the parole board that she has improved as a person. But it is all manipulation. It is all for show, all for herself, which it has been their whole lives.
“They do not need her and they are not interested in having a relationship with her. Regardless of her intentions. They have done so much work to better themselves after the hell they witnessed. That ship has sailed.”
Connelly, now in her 40s, promised the parole board that she would not enter into a relationship with someone who had regular contact with children, and said she was “still a danger” to children in her care, even now.
The parole bid is still ongoing, and board members are understood to be holding more inquiry sessions into her possible release, with some taking place behind closed doors.
It is understood she told the Board she would happily be monitored more regularly on the outside world, should they let her go, and even spoke about how she would like to try and rebuild her relationship with her other, older children upon her release.
But insiders said it was unlikely to happen. Our insider continued: “She can paint whatever picture she wants. There will be no relationship, she is shameless.”
A decision is expected in the next month. Her son Peter died after suffering horrific injuries at the hands of her then-partner Steven Barker and his paedophile brother Jason Owen.
The horrific abuse took place over an eight month period and was routinely missed by health workers involved in the babe’s life.
Peter, previously known as Baby P, was on the Haringey Council’s at-risk register, but despite 60 visits from social workers and police, was still found dead in a blood-stained cot at his mother’s flat in north London.
Connelly was jailed after pleading guilty to causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person in 2008. She was initially released in 2013 after making a successful bid for freedom, but was locked up again just two years later after breaking the terms of her parole by selling indecent photographs of herself to perverts online.
She was then recalled again in 2024 for starting a relationship with a man she met online, without telling the officials who were supervising her.
The hearing was told the situation “closely mirrored” that of her first recall.
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