The Justice Minister, Dominic Raab, has promised to investigate after victims of Greater Manchester's worst rapist were not told he is to be released this month. Andrew Barlow, formerly Andrew Longmire is scheduled to be paroled after 34 years behind bars.
The head of the Parole Board has already expressed his regret that some victims were not told he is to be freed. But he says the responsibility for telling them was down to the Probation Service.
As revealed in the Manchester Evening News, Barlow, originally from Bolton, has already spent time out of prison under escort as he prepares for his release. Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley and Broughton, has described the decision to release Barlow as a "perversion of justice".
