Colin Pitchfork, who murdered two girls in the 1980s, challenges a decision to keep him behind bars.
Double child rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork will face a fresh hearing after challenging a decision to keep him behind bars.
Pitchfork was granted parole in June last year, but concerns about the danger Pitchfork posed caused Justice Secretary Alex Chalk to intervene, making an "application for reconsideration". In his challenge, Pitchfork had argued the decision was irritational, because the panel had failed to take account of comments from his prison offender manager, which had recommended he be released.
He also said the panel had "overemphasised the significance of polygraph testing within the context of a very extensive monitoring plan for release".Mr Chalk is now seeking an "urgent meeting" with the Parole Board following Monday's announcement. Mr Costa said he intended to apply for Pitchfork's hearing to be heard in public in a bid to ensure "proper scrutiny" of the decision-making process.
"This government is reforming the parole system to add a ministerial check on the release of the most dangerous criminals and are changing the law so that for society's most depraved killers, life means life."Colin Pitchfork, 22 at the time of the first murder, was married with two sons. He was a baker who grew up in rural Leicestershire and lived in Littlethorpe
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