Dean Ryan is one of Scotland's longest serving prisoners.
A decision not to release a man who murdered a Glasgow lawyer and set fire to his home has been ruled "unfair".
The killer took his fight to the Court of Session in Edinburgh where his legal team argued that justice chiefs had blundered by considering the rape allegations in their decision. They also claimed that Ryan's use of illicit painkillers behind bars did not mean he automatically had connections to organised crime.
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"In the community he could simply go to A&E or buy a painkiller; there would be no need to seek out an illicit drug. He was on a stable prescription of methadone and had been managing well on it for over two years.
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