Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has asked the Parole Board to reconsider a decision to allow child killer Colin Pitchfork to be released from prison.
Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 after admitting to raping and strangling 15-year-old Lecistershire schoolgirls Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. But he could now be freed after serving a total of 35 years for crimes that “sent shockwaves around the UK”, said the Daily Mail.
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