The mother of Baby P, the youngster tortured to death in 2007 in a case that horrified the nation, has been recalled to prison after breaching her licence conditions.
Tracey Connelly, 42, was given an indefinite sentence with a minimum of five years in 2009 after covering up her 17-month-old son’s barbaric injuries and letting him die in her care at home in Tottenham, north London on August 3 2007.
can exclusively reveal Connelly has been recalled to prison for a breach of her licence conditions.
The twisted mother was recalled to prison in 2015 after selling nude photos online – and is now on her way back to jail just over two years after last being released.
She was subject to 20 licence conditions, including having to wear an electronic tag and disclose all her relationships, having her Internet use monitored and obey a curfew.
She was also banned from going to certain places to ‘avoid contact with victims and to protect children’.
A HM Prison and Probation Service spokesperson told : ‘Offenders released on licence are subject to strict conditions and we do not hesitate to recall them to prison if they break the rules.’
The Parole Board had said at the time of her release in 2022 that she had been cleared for release due to a low risk of reoffending and that probation officers and prison officials supported the plan.
As she is serving an indefinite sentence, it will be a matter for the Board to decide if she is ever released again.
can also reveal Connelly has been reinventing herself as a fat-fighting reality TV fan on a WeightWatchers forum, duping fellow slimmers who praised her weight loss journey without knowing her true identity.
The abusive mother has been posting as ‘Connie’ on the official WeightWatchers app for the last nine months, using the forum to make friends as she chartered her personal weight loss journey after ballooning to 20 stone – without ever revealing her dark past.
She posted numerous pictures of herself at the gym, reading birthday cards as she held aloft a bottles of Prosecco and enjoying fry-ups.
She also gave others an insight into her humdrum lifestyle, like how she watched reality TV show Married At First Sight as well as the challenges of living with her cat, Odin.
March 1, 2006: Peter Connelly (Baby P) is born
August 3, 2007: 17-month-old Baby P is found dead in cot
November 11, 2008: Peter’s mother, Tracey Connelly, boyfriend Steven Barker and brother Jason Owen are convicted of causing his death
November 13, 2008: Ed Balls orders an inquiry into the role of the council, health authority and police
December 1, 2008: An independent review declares Haringey’s child protection services ‘inadequate’
December 8, 2008: Haringey Children’s Services boss Sharon Shoesmith is sacked with immediate effect
May 22, 2009: Connelly is jailed indefinitely, Barker gets a life term and Owen is given an indeterminate sentence for public protection
October 7, 2009: Shoesmith launches a High Court case against Balls to seek compensation for her dismissal
September 15, 2010: Shoesmith tells MPs she is sorry about what happened but refuses to accept any blame, saying she had no involvement in the care of Baby P
May 27, 2011: The Court of Appeal rules in favour of Shoesmith, saying her dismissal was ‘tainted by unfairness’
October 8, 2013: Connelly is recommended for release by the Parole Board
February 14, 2015: Connelly is back behind bars after sending nude pictures to male fans
December 29, 2015: The Parole Board rejects Connelly’s first bid for freedom
November 28, 2017: The Parole Board rejects Connelly’s second bid for freedom
January 6, 2019: The Parole Board rejects Connelly’s third bid for freedom
March 30, 2022: Connelly is recommended for release by the Parole Board
July 2022: Connelly is released and sent to a bail hostel
September 2024: Connelly is recalled to prison after breaching her licence conditions
In a post six weeks ago, Connelly boasted about losing 5lbs since July 5 and said: ‘The only real changes I have made is switching my normal 2 lattes to 2 Americanos and adding more fruit and vegetables to my food, yes I’m working on portion but that is a slow process for me.
‘Other things I have done is stop eating wholemeal bread, the reason for this is because it is too light for me so I end up having 2 sandwiches to feel even remotely satisfied.’
Connelly is understood to have relocated to the North-West. Photographs posted on her WeightWatchers page just after her birthday show her reading cards and enjoying a mimosa cocktail in a spacious, modern well-decorated home.
In one photo she grins as she holds aloft a card which reads: ‘Happy Birthday from one fabulous b**** to another’.
But a woman who learned her real identity posted a message on the app to reveal who Connelly really is.
She said: ‘I’ve decided to be honest with you guys. I’ve been concerned about sharing what’s happened to me as it will shock and upset people.
‘But in all good conscience I think it’s something you all deserve to know to protect yourselves in future.
‘The woman we knew as Connie was actually someone else. She had been in prison for 13 years and had been given a new identity. She breached her parole restrictions and was re-incarcerated.
‘I was completely unaware, like the rest of you who she was until this happened. Her name is Tracey Connelly – the mother of Baby P. Please Google. It’s horrifying, upsetting and scary.
‘I’m in shock, we’ve been manipulated by an expert I’m afraid. Don’t know what else to say, it’s like I’m in a nightmare.’
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of WW, the operators of WeightWatchers. has contacted the firm for comment.
Connelly was sentenced to an indefinite sentence after covering up the injuries inflicted upon her son, whose real name was Peter. She pleaded guilty to causing or allowing the death of a child in 2008.
Connelly’s lover Steven Barker was jailed in 2009 for a minimum of 12 years for torturing the 17-month-old to death while his brother, Jason Owen, received a six year jail sentence for allowing the toddler to die.
The tragic toddler’s mother was released in 2013 but was recalled to prison two years later after cashing in on her notoriety with twisted male fans by selling naked photos of herself online.
Connelly was put back behind bars for breaching the conditions of her parole that forbade her from ‘developing intimate personal relationships’ on the internet.
She was released again in July 2022, moved from HM Prison Low Newton in County Durham to a bail hostel in a secret location to begin her life anew.
The then-justice secretary Dominic Raab had sought to prevent her from being released but months later pictured Connelly walking down the street, enjoying her freedom, hiding behind a face mask.
An onlooker told us at the time: ‘What she did is despicable. There are no words for that.
‘There’s no way that she should be out and about living life as normal after what she did. I believe in rehabilitation for offenders but not for what she did.’
By then, her weight had ballooned to 20 stone, prompting her own mother to comment to The Sun: ‘Look at her — look at the state of her. She’s got so fat. She looks disgusting.
‘She is wearing the mask because she doesn’t want anyone to recognise her. It makes me feel sick looking at these photos. I don’t know how she can live her life like normal.’
She is later reported to have befriended child killer Helen Cauldwell, who throttled her own daughter to death with a Piglet toy, at the halfway house in the north of England.
The killing of Baby shocked Britain, not just because of the suffering the tot endured as his mother stood by, but because of the opportunities missed to save him.
Peter had suffered more than 50 injuries despite being on the at-risk register and receiving 60 visits from social workers, police officers and health professionals over eight months.
The failure by social workers and doctors to properly raise the alarm over the youngster’s abuse led to the head of children’s services at Haringey council being removed from her position.