My husband, Mike Guilfoyle, who has died aged 68 from prostate cancer, worked for the probation service for more than 20 years. As a probation officer in London, Mike was an active member of the probation union Napo.
He was a regular contributor to debates and motions at the union’s annual conferences, moving campaigning motions aligned to its core commitment to retaining a public probation service. On one occasion, he was chided by a former home secretary on national television for criticising the then government’s obsession with punitive prison policies. It was a reprimand he cheerily accepted.
