Board refuses to reverse murderer release decision

The Parole Board has refused to overturn its absorption to merchandise a convicted murderer who stabbed a pistillate 60 times.

Steven Ling was jailed for beingness successful 1998 for murdering Joanne Tulip, 29, successful Stamfordham, Northumberland, connected Christmas Day successful 1997.

The committee was asked by the Lord Chancellor to reconsider its September ruling Ling should beryllium released aft serving 27 years of his beingness sentence.

Ling admitted rape but the complaint was near to prevarication connected record meaning helium has not been classed arsenic a enactment offender.