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The Latest Breaking News from the Parole Board

How evil child killer ended up back behind bars 8 weeks after release

Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life after raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth

Liverpool Echo

Lord Chancellor asks Parole Board to reconsider release of rapist child killer Colin Pitchfork

The Parole Board ruled that Pitchfork, jailed for life for raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, could be freed

Evening Standard

Lord Chancellor asks Parole Board to reconsider Colin Pitchfork release

The Parole Board ruled that Pitchfork, jailed for life for raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, could be freed.

The Independent UK

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Danny Weatherson case: Newcastle MP calls for change to prevent others from becoming trapped in prison system

Danny is set to be released 17 years after he was handed a controversial indefinite prison sentence for attempting to steal a coat and mobile phone

Chronicle Live

Scotswood prisoner Danny Weatherson to be freed from prison 17 years after he was locked up on controversial indefinite sentence

The Parole Board agreed the 34-year-old, who was locked up as a teenager after being convicted of attempted robbery, can now finally be released

Chronicle Live

'My son's killer should be locked up forever - he's played the system to be freed'

Joshua Declan Thomas, then aged 15, was among the youths who viciously punched, kicked, and stamped on Ben Bellamy after luring him to the beach on Swansea seafront in 2005.

Daily Mirror

Brutal killer of defenceless teenage boy set to be freed leaving victim's father 'disgusted'

'I can't understand how you can take another life in the manner Ben's was taken and be given a chance to live your life,' said Ben Bellamy's father John

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Mum who adopted amputee boy Tony Hudgell calls for cruelty register to protect children

Tony Hudgell was the son of birth parents Jody Simpson and Tony Smith, who inflicted such severe injuries on him - when he was just six weeks old - that his legs eventually had to be amputated

Daily Mirror

Lord Chancellor will look ‘extremely carefully’ at Pitchfork decision

The Parole Board has ruled double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released from prison subject to conditions.

The Independent UK

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released from prison – Parole Board

Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 after raping and strangling two 15-year-olds in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.

The Independent UK

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released from prison, Parole Board rules

Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 after raping and strangling two 15-year-olds, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986

The Independent UK

Colin Pitchfork: Double child killer can be released from prison, parole board rules

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released from prison subject to conditions, the Parole Board has said.

Evening Standard

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released, says Parole Board

The 62-year-old was jailed for life in 1988 after raping and strangling two 15-year-olds

Wales Online

Evil double child-killer and rapist Colin Pitchfork cleared to walk free from prison

Colin Pitchfork was denied parole in 2016 and 2018 after being branded a danger to the public but is now set to walk free 40 years after raping and strangling 15-year-old Lynda Mann

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The Independent UK

Parole Board directs prison release of terrorist friend of London Bridge killer

Nazam Hussain was jailed alongside Khan in 2012 after a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange.

Daily Mirror

Dad who beat baby so badly he needed both legs amputated storms out of victim statement

Tony Hudgell, who has since been adopted, was just 41 days old when he suffered eight fractures to his legs and then developed life-threatening septicaemia in 2014

Dublin Live

Heartbroken family of Rachel Callaly furious over killer Joe O'Reilly freedom bid

The victim’s elderly parents Rose and Jim are hoping to meet with the Parole Board to state their case as to why he should not be released

The Independent UK

Triple killer should be moved to open prison, Parole Board says

The final decision lies with Justice Secretary Alex Chalk.

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Daily Mirror

Killer to have public parole hearing despite moaning it would give him negative thoughts

Stephen Ling stabbed Joanne Tulip 60 times before carving images including swastikas and crosses into her body in a horrific attack at his home in Northumberland

Chronicle Live

Northumberland Christmas Day killer who stabbed woman 60 times will have parole hearing heard in public

Stephen Ling opposed a public hearing, saying that it may trigger 'negative thoughts' for him

Manchester Evening News

'Positive reports and remorse' - how schoolgirl's torture gang killer talked his way out of jail

"He and the other murderers of Suzanne were guilty of a crime every bit as horrific as the Moors Murders."

The Independent UK

Serial rapist Andrew Barlow recalled to prison months after failed bid to block release

‘Offenders are subject to tough licence conditions and when they breach them, we do not hesitate to return them to custody’

Daily Mirror

'Coronation Street rapist' with 13 life sentences back in jail 6 WEEKS after release

Andrew Barlow was given 11 life sentences in 1988 for raping 11 women and two more in 2010 and 2017 when he was linked to two more through advances in DNA technology

Daily Record

Twisted rapist jailed for 34 years for series of sex attacks back in prison six weeks after release

Andrew Barlow was originally handed 13 life sentences for his sickening crimes.

The Independent UK

Serial rapist recalled to prison months after failed bid to block release

Andrew Barlow, 67, from Bolton in Lancashire, was released after serving more than 34 years in jail for a string of rapes in the 1980s.

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