Colin Pitchfork: Double schoolgirl murderer sent back to prison

[bots]

This makes my blood boil!, i remember it clearly

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A double child killer who was the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence can be released, the Parole Board has confirmed.

Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life for the rapes and murders of 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in the 1980s.

Pitchfork was last denied parole in 2018, having spent 30 years in prison.

The Parole Board said it was satisfied Pitchfork was suitable for release, which is subject to conditions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-57384393

[Zizu]

Yikes !!


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[Tom4784]

I don't see a reason to ever let someone who murdered and raped two children out of prison. Sometimes life must mean life, and this is definitely one of those times.

[UserSince2005]

Priti will sort this out. Silly lefties on the parole board will be overruled.

[Cherie]

so by that token I guess Ian Huntley will see the light of day as well :shrug:

This guy is only 61 as well :umm2:

never heard of the case before

[Nicky91]

what the ****


committing multiple murder, and now getting released from prison :o :o


well if another schoolgirl murder happens, then we know whom to look at first


stupid decision

[Kate!]

I don't see a reason to ever let someone who murdered and raped two children out of prison. Sometimes life must mean life, and this is definitely one of those times.

Yes Dezzy. I'd go further and say life should always mean life. X

[arista]

I don't see a reason to ever let someone who murdered and raped two children out of prison. Sometimes life must mean life, and this is definitely one of those times.


Yes its Crazy to let him out.

[bots]

so by that token I guess Ian Huntley will see the light of day as well :shrug:

This guy is only 61 as well :umm2:

never heard of the case before

he took the lives of 2 schoolgirls and he gets his freedom for possibly 20 or 30 years, it's insane

[hijaxers]

Priti will sort this out. Silly lefties on the parole board will be overruled.

Well she had better find a way to keep him in , no one wants that Ba***rd released.

[thesheriff443]

Many murders get released back into society, it’s the justice system.
You cant really pick and choose who gets freedom.

[Cherie]

Many murders get released back into society, it’s the justice system.
You cant really pick and choose who gets freedom.

In November 1983 he left his baby son sleeping in the back of his car and raped and strangled 15-year-old Lynda Mann in Narborough. He then drove home and put his son to bed
Three years later, less than a mile from where Lynda died, he raped and murdered Dawn Ashworth, also 15, of Enderby. The pathologist who examined her body described it as a "brutal sexual assault"

[thesheriff443]

In November 1983 he left his baby son sleeping in the back of his car and raped and strangled 15-year-old Lynda Mann in Narborough. He then drove home and put his son to bed
Three years later, less than a mile from where Lynda died, he raped and murdered Dawn Ashworth, also 15, of Enderby. The pathologist who examined her body described it as a "brutal sexual assault"

Yes brutal crimes and I did put up a thread of a woman who has been released in reading and was working in a local garage until her identity was found out after torturing a young girl over a few days pulling her teeth out washing her with bleach and in the setting her on fire

[Ammi]

….from wiki…

On 19 September 1987, Pitchfork was arrested.[7] During subsequent questioning, Pitchfork admitted to exposing himself to more than 1,000 women, a compulsion that began in his early teens. He later progressed to sexual assault and then to strangling his victims in order to protect his identity. He pleaded guilty to the two rapes/murders in addition to another incident of sexual assault, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.[8] The Lord Chief Justice at the time of his sentencing said: "From the point of view of the safety of the public I doubt if he should ever be released."


…and from a local news article …

He was later cleared for unescorted days out of prison and was seen strolling around shops in Bristol city centre in November 2017.


…he was refused parole in 2016 but then allowed unescorted days out of prison the following year….so the decision had already been made, then…it was made in 2016 that he would be freed…?…..we don’t have a death penalty because we’re meant to have an adequate justice system instead….

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/child-killer-colin-pitchfork-suitable-5498367#comments-section

[arista]

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[GoldHeart]

I don't see a reason to ever let someone who murdered and raped two children out of prison. Sometimes life must mean life, and this is definitely one of those times.

I've never understood why they sentence a monster like this to 'life' if they only serve 30 years, LIFE SHOULD mean LIFE.

He should never see daylight ever again! .

[Amy Jade]

They'll spend a shed load giving him a new identity and a new house in a nice quiet area too.

[GoldHeart]

They'll spend a shed load giving him a new identity and a new house in a nice quiet area too.

And the really sickening thing is there's a new drug coming out that can help slow down Alzheimer's, I bet you anything they'll be a problem making it available here in the UK next year due to costs.

But it's perfectly fine to waste money on sickos like this, who should infact rot in jail !.

[arista]

He has now been released


All media

[bots]

the law is going to have to be changed regarding parole boards

[Niamh.]

I don't see a reason to ever let someone who murdered and raped two children out of prison. Sometimes life must mean life, and this is definitely one of those times.

He should have got sentence's for 2 rapes and 2 murders that should have added up to enough years to keep there until he died

[Ammi]

…it surely was already a decided thing, though ….when they’ve allowed him out for ‘unescorted days’ since 2017…?…so the thought process is, if he did something, if there were actions on those unescorted days which could have resulted in a child’s life being taken…it would have been a ‘no parole’….but a child would be dead in that process…..seriously….

[Ammi]

…‘unescorted’ is one huge risk to take with children’s lives…

[bots]

i think the problem is that guidelines have drifted over the years. When the judge sentenced him, he did so fully believing that the guy would never see the light of day again. Move on a few decades and policies and thinking have changed. Nothing stays the same of course, we have to move forward, but someone who brutally rapes and then murders 2 teenage girls deserves to rot in prison. I just don't think rehabilitation was ever the intended strategy for him

[arista]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-57737050

https://news.sky.com/story/colin-pitchfork-man-raped-and-murdered-two-schoolgirls-to-be-released-after-government-loses-challenge-12354840

[Niamh.]

…‘unescorted’ is one huge risk to take with children’s lives…

Absolutely and this is why people guilty of crimes like his should never ever be considered for rehabilitation, it just isn't worth what the risk of that is

[arista]

i think the problem is that guidelines have drifted over the years. When the judge sentenced him, he did so fully believing that the guy would never see the light of day again. Move on a few decades and policies and thinking have changed. Nothing stays the same of course, we have to move forward, but someone who brutally rapes and then murders 2 teenage girls deserves to rot in prison. I just don't think rehabilitation was ever the intended strategy for him


Yes


[In 2009, his 30-year life tariff was reduced
by two years for "exceptional progress" - a decision
that was strongly criticised by the families of his victims]

[Crimson Dynamo]

and the poor families suffer all over again

If he had been shot in the head and incinerated in the first place...

[Ammi]

Absolutely and this is why people guilty of crimes like his should never ever be considered for rehabilitation, it just isn't worth what the risk of that is

…when I read this originally and that he’d been having these unescorted days anyway….I thought of that case in the unsolved mysteries, Lester Eubanks…?…where he escaped from a shopping mall on his day out and was never found again…..he raped and killed the young girl, Mary Ellen….

[Niamh.]

…when I read this originally and that he’d been having these unescorted days anyway….I thought of that case in the unsolved mysteries, Lester Eubanks…?…where he escaped from a shopping mall on his day out and was never found again…..he raped and killed the young girl, Mary Ellen….

Oh yeah, awful. What are they actually thinking?

[arista]

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[Livia]

Sentences need to run consecutively and not concurrently... or judges need to have the option of a whole life sentence. This man, and I use the term in its loosest possible sense, should die in prison.

[arista]

[Double child murderer and rapist Colin Pitchfork
WON'T be put onto sex offenders register
when he is freed within days
and 'plans to change his name']


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/18/12/45583447-9799771-image-m-65_1626606183455.jpg
[Colin Pitchfork, 61, (pictured on day release),
will be kept off the sex offenders register
due to a legal loophole]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9799771/Child-killer-Colin-Pitchfork-WONT-sex-offenders-register-freed-days.html



At least people can see what he looks like, now.

[Cherie]

Even Government intervention could not prevent his release, I hope the parole panel can sleep easy in their beds, another incidence where the victims families matter not a jot

[Zizu]

Even Government intervention could not prevent his release, I hope the parole panel can sleep easy in their beds, another incidence where the victims families matter not a jot


Pity they can’t hold the parole board responsible for any future crimes these people commit ...


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[Mystic Mock]

I don't see a reason to ever let someone who murdered and raped two children out of prison. Sometimes life must mean life, and this is definitely one of those times.

Agreed.

[arista]

The Evil Killer now Released


https://news.sky.com/story/colin-pitchfork-man-who-raped-and-killed-two-children-in-the-1980s-freed-after-spending-33-years-behind-bars-12396518

[Tom4784]

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[arista]

A complete failure from the parole board. Each one of them involved in this decision should be made to apologise to the families for their stupidity.


Very True

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/07/23/47628655-9967679-image-a-54_1631054708494.jpg
[Wearing a T-shirt, jeans and a new pair of trainers,
Pitchfork has been familiarising himself
with his suburban neighbourhood.
Hidden beneath his jeans is an
electronic tag which allows police to
monitor his movements]

[Families' fury as double child killer Colin Pitchfork
strolls free near Schools after his release from prison]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9967679/Families-fury-child-killer-Colin-Pitchfork-strolls-free-near-schools-prison-release.html

[Livia]

If his victims' families want to start a go-fund-me page to have him killed, I'd be more than willing to chuck in a few bob.

[bots]

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork arrested and recalled to prison, two months after being released ..... must have done something already

[Niamh.]

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork arrested and recalled to prison, two months after being released ..... must have done something alreadyHow he was even let out in the first place is beyond me and if he's hurt someone else that's on whoever decided to let him out

[arista]

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[Mystic Mock]

It's good to hear that he is behind bars.

[bots]

the parole board who insisted on releasing him should be sacked immediately

[Cherie]

the parole board who insisted on releasing him should be sacked immediately

yes, it was only because he was being so closely watched that no harm came to anyone

[user104658]

They're lucky he had only "approached" people, this could easily have ended up with someone else being attacked or killed. At the very least it show it's a compulsion he has not a decision he's making - which means he can never be considered safe to be on the streets unsupervised.

[Alf]

Peter Hitchens on Talk Radio saying he's not in favour of the death penalty but it's hard to argue against it in these cases.


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