THE findings of a long-running inquiry into care offered to child killer Dominic McKilligan will be published later today.

The savage murder of Newcastle schoolboy Wesley Neailey in the summer of 1998 shocked the region.

It later emerged that his killer, 18-year-old McKilligan, had recently been released from Aycliffe Young Peoples Centre in County Durham.

The inquiry released today is likely to focus on the supervision of McKilligan in the community after his release from Aycliffe.

In 1993 McKilligan, then aged 14, was sentenced to a three-year supervision order after he was convicted of a number of sex offences against children in his native Bournemouth.

The Sex Offenders Register, which would have forced him to register his whereabouts with police, came into force just one day after his release and he was found accommodation in Newcastle.

Just seven months later, he killed the Tyneside youngster and was subsequently jailed for life. Following his trial an independent Part 8 case review was commissioned by Bournemouth Borough Council, Durham County Council and Newcastle City Council.

The findings, written by the Bridge Child Care Development Service, are to be published this morning in Newcastle.

Part 8 case reviews are held to establish whether lessons can be learned about the way in which local professionals and agencies work together to safeguard children and recommend changes if any are necessary