Infamous killer makes bid to be freed from prison

A murderer astatine the centre of 1 of Wales' astir notorious killings volition marque his lawsuit to beryllium freed from situation later.

Lynette White was stabbed much than 50 times and had her pharynx slit successful a Cardiff docklands level connected Valentine's Day 1988, but Jeffrey Gafoor was not jailed until 2003.

Instead, successful 1990, Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris were jailed for beingness for the 20-year-old's execution successful what was deemed to beryllium a gross miscarriage of justice.

Thursday's parole proceeding - which volition beryllium held successful private - volition beryllium Gafoor's sixth, but the determination whitethorn not beryllium made for up to 14 days.

When helium was jailed successful 2003, Gafoor was ordered to service a minimum of 13 years aft confessing to stabbing Ms White - a enactment idiosyncratic - successful a enactment implicit £30.

He was granted time merchandise successful January 2023.

After Ms White's murder, detectives investigating the lawsuit said they were hunting a achromatic suspect.

Instead, 5 achromatic and mixed-race men were arrested and charged with execution earlier their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal.

Gafoor was not caught until determination were advances successful DNA technology.

Victims, prisoners, members of the nationalist and the media person each been capable to use for nationalist parole hearings aft changes successful the instrumentality successful 2022.

In deciding whether to assistance a nationalist hearing, the parole committee takes into relationship the wishes of the victims, immoderate hazard of trauma to the victims oregon their families, immoderate risks of information to the captive and whether witnesser grounds would beryllium affected.