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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Sherwood and agencies

Parole Board’s move to release murderer is ‘betrayal’, says victim’s mother

Joanne Tulip
Joanne Tulip was stabbed 60 times by Steven Ling on Christmas Day 1997. Photograph: PA Photos/PA

The mother of a woman who was raped and murdered 27 years ago has said a Parole Board recommendation that her killer should be released from prison is a “betrayal”.

Joanne Tulip, 29, was stabbed 60 times on Christmas Day 1997 in an attack inspired by sadism, the sentencing judge said almost a year later.

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