Killer Colin Pitchfork to be released from prison after challenge fails
by Jamie Grierson Home affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5M4K9)
Parole Board rejects government call to re-examine decision to free man who murdered two schoolgirls
The child killer and rapist Colin Pitchfork is to be freed from prison after the Parole Board rejected calls from the government to reconsider the controversial decision.
Now 61, the double murderer was jailed in 1988 after raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.
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