It is an appalling story that has little to do with low hours but everything to do with airmanship. Any company that can gleefully overlook such an incompetent training record and still allow a pilot to fly should not be allowed to operate.
Do we know if the TR was aware of the disaster waiting to happen from the other seat?
In my company, happily before the days of Draconian SOP's (they felt that having made us captains they could rely upon our judgement) it was entirely at the captain's discretion whether or not he gave the FO a landing. Now if in this case the captain was aware of this chap's record, he loses a lot of my sympathy.
Airbus never envisaged their aircraft to be used for ab initio training,