"the Probation Service could not find an interpreter"

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/our-region/sunderland/sentence-hearing-on-asylum-seeker-who-attacked-urinating-woman-put-on-hold-1-8400272 
20 February 2017

[…] Sunderland Magistrates’ Court heard the Probation Service could not find an interpreter to help write a report on Ali Shahad before he returned to the court to find out his fate yesterday. […]