Man who killed wife becomes first inmate to face public parole hearing

Russell Causley claims at hearing in Lewes that his lover was responsible for 1985 murder of Carole Packman

A man convicted of his wife's 1985 murder has claimed his lover was responsible for the crime at the first ever public Parole Board hearing in England and Wales.

Russell Causley's hearing was the first that the public have been granted access to since new rules, brought in after the ultimately quashed decision to release the black-cab rapist" John Worboys, came into effect in July.