The Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Vera Baird, has warned that a new law that would give the relatives of murdered people a right to attend parole board hearings could lead to their “revictimisation.”
The government says the Victims’ Bill, which was unveiled after the Queen’s Speech last month, “aims to improve victims’ experiences so that victims feel better supported across the criminal justice process.”
Victims would be given the right to attend parole board hearings and ask questions when prisoners are considered suitable for release.
In 2019 David McGreavy, who murdered three young children at a house in Worcester in 1973 and impaled their bodies on a spiked fence, was released from prison despite objections from the children’s mother, Elsie Urry….