The Parole Board has cleared the way for child killer Colin Pitchfork to be released from prison but the justice secretary, Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk, will consider the case “extremely carefully.”
Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling Lynda Mann, 15, in Leicestershire in 1983 and Dawn Ashworth, who was also 15 years old, three years later.
He was the first person ever convicted on the basis of DNA evidence and, when faced with it, he pleaded guilty.
In 1988, Pitchfork was given a minimum term of 30 years by the trial judge, Mr Justice Otton, who said he, “should only be released when the authorities are satisfied that he is no longer a danger to women.”…