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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Killer Colin Pitchfork has plea for release from prison rejected

Black and white mugshot of Colin Pitchfork.
Colin Pitchfork was the first person in the UK to be convicted using DNA fingerprinting. Photograph: PA

Colin Pitchfork, who was convicted of raping and murdering two teenagers, has had his application to be released from jail rejected by the Parole Board, which also said he should not be moved to an open prison.

A panel found that Pitchfork, 65, who was jailed for life in 1988 for raping and strangling Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, both 15, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986, posed a risk of reoffending.

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