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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Stuart Macdonald

Scots paedo couple who murdered woman over plan to report child abuse lose bid to call one another from jail

A paedophile couple serving life for murder who want the right to phone each from different jails have lost a bid to have their case heard at the UK's highest court.

Charles O'Neill and William Lauchlan were allowed to call each other after being jailed in 2010 but this was blocked in 2018.

The pair - who murdered a woman who intended to report their child abuse to the authorities - claimed the ban breached their human rights and launched a court bid to overturn it.

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