A murderer who has never revealed where he hid his wife’s body has been freed from jail. Russell Causley made UK legal history last year when he became the first prisoner to face a public parole hearing.
He was handed a life sentence for killing Carole Packman, who disappeared in 1985, a year after he moved his lover into the family home in Bournemouth, Dorset. Causley was released in 2020 after serving more than 23 years behind bars for the murder but was sent back to jail the following year when he breached his licence conditions.
The Parole Board ruled last month that he was suitable to be released from prison again. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed this had taken place. It is understood he left HMP Bristol in the morning, where he had been transferred after previously being held at HMP Lewes in East Sussex.
