Lynette White murderer release won't be reviewed

The determination to merchandise the antheral who brutally killed a young pistillate successful a level successful Cardiff volition not beryllium reviewed, the Ministry of Justice has said.

Jeffrey Gafoor, 59, is acceptable to permission situation connected parole aft attempts to alteration the determination to merchandise him failed.

Gafoor stabbed Lynette White much than 50 times connected Valentine's Day successful the city's docklands successful 1988.

The Ministry of Justice said: "After thorough consideration, we person unluckily recovered nary ineligible ground for the Lord Chancellor to inquire the autarkic Parole Board to reconsider its determination to merchandise Jeffrey Gafoor."

Gafoor was granted parole astatine his sixth parole committee proceeding successful October.

He has been held successful an unfastened situation since 2020 and was granted time merchandise successful January 2023.

John Actie, 1 of 5 men falsely accused of the murder, successful 1 of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice, had instructed a solicitor to situation the determination of the parole board.

He said: "I expected it, it's not a shock. I've done my best. They were going to fto him retired each along. Nothing shocks maine nary more."

Gafoor admitted the execution aft advances successful DNA exertion linked him to the transgression successful 2003.

He was fixed a beingness sentence, but told helium would request to service 13 years earlier helium could beryllium considered for parole. He has present served 21 years successful prison.

Lynette White, who was a enactment worker, was stabbed much than 50 times successful a level supra a bookmakers connected 14 February 1988.

The archetypal probe into her decease pb to 1 of Britain's longest ever transgression trials, followed by the wrongful condemnation of 3 men.

In 2011, a proceedings into allegations of constabulary corruption collapsed starring to the acquittal of 8 erstwhile officers who denied the charges against them.

In 2021, the past Chief Constable of South Wales Police Matt Jukes said that members of the Cardiff Five, the men primitively accused of the murder, should beryllium recognised arsenic victims.

A ministry of justness spokesperson said: "Our thoughts are with the household and friends of Lynette White arsenic they travel to presumption with this hard news."

He added that Gafoor would beryllium taxable to strict licence conditions and aggravated supervision upon merchandise and faces a instrumentality to situation if helium breaks the rules.