New stricter controls on violent criminals freed from jail could have stopped a man killing an Oxford woman weeks after his release, according to his daughter.

Philip Huggins, 49, broke his parole conditions by fleeing a bail hostel in Milton Keynes days before he stabbed Cecilia Nightingale, 53, in her flat in Northfield Close, Littlemore.

He is now serving a life sentence for murder.

His daughter, Marjorie Binningsley, 25, tipped off police, leading to his arrest.

Yesterday she welcomed Home Secretary Charles Clarke's 'dangerous persons order' designed to control and monitor the movements of violent offenders after they have left prison, following several high-profile cases of criminals killing while they were on probation or licence.

Huggins had been released after serving six years of an 11-year stretch for robbery and kidnap. Mrs Binningsley said: "When dad came out, he was on probation.

"He skipped a bail hostel. Nothing was done about it and look what he went and did.

"I am not saying everyone released on parole could do that, but people who have been capable of violent crime in the past need to have tags or curfews and they need to be strict.

"My father was in and out of prison for years and years.

"Perhaps if someone had been keeping tabs on him, it would have stopped him killing her."

Mr Clarke's new orders are expected to ban high-risk offenders from visiting specified places, and impose curfews and regular reporting requirements to police and probation officers.

A Parole Board Review Committee spokesman said the move was expected to significantly strengthen the scrutiny of cases where prisoners released on licence had committed further serious offences.