Child killer's parole hearing to be private
Manchester Evening News|July 12, 2024
BOARD SAY U-TURN IS DUE TO FRESH ALLEGATIONS’
Child killer's parole hearing to be private

DOUBLE child killer Colin Pitchfork's next parole hearing will no longer be held in public due to "unforeseeable developments including fresh allegations".

The Parole Board said yesterday that the allegations were "in respect of relatively recent conduct" and apologised for the "increased stress" on the families of the victims.

Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 after raping and strangling 15-year-old girls Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.

Then aged 27, he became the first man to be convicted in the UK using DNA profiling and was handed a minimum jail term of 30 years, later reduced to 28 years.

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