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Double child killer and rapist Colin Pitchfork has been granted parole and will be released from prison.

Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.

The 63-year-old was released in 2021, before being arrested and sent back to prison two months later.

Following a hearing held in private in April, the Parole Board has decided Pitchfork can be released.

In its decision, the Parole Board "determined that it was no longer necessary for the protection of the public for Mr Pitchfork to remain confined and thereby directed his release".

"The prisoner had committed shocking, serious offences, causing immeasurable harm to his victims," it said.

"However the Parole Board's role, as required by law is to undertake a risk assessment.

"The panel noted that Mr Pitchfork has been in prison for a very long time. His behaviour for almost all of that time has not caused any concern... and the evidence before the panel demonstrated that he had learnt the lessons that he had been taught and had worked out how to apply them in practice."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-65479515

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This has been allowed to happen because these boards consider rehabilitation above punishment, which i think is sickeningly wrong