A convicted murderer who has spent 24 years in prison but has never revealed where he disposed of his victim, has faced Britain’s first ever public parole board hearing.
Russell Causley, 79, was given a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Carole Packman, who vanished from their home in Bournemouth, Dorset, in 1985.
He was released from Littlehey prison in Cambridgeshire in 2020 but was recalled in November 2021 after breaching the conditions of his parole by failing to take a phone call from his community offender manager.
On Monday he faced a hearing—the first of its kind ever to be held in public—in which he is trying to convince members of the Parole Board he is safe to be released….