The Latest Breaking News from the Parole Board

Carrie Johnson says police treatment of sexual assault victims needs to evolve

Mrs Johnson helped bring serial sex attacker John Worboys to justice.

The Independent UK · May 16

Carrie Johnson reveals details of night black cab rapist John Worboys drugged her

Mrs Johnson helped bring serial sex attacker John Worboys to justice and was involved in a ITV drama of the case

Evening Standard · May 16

John Worboys is denied parole for second time

Parole Board tells victims of black cab rapist that it had decided against open conditions or release

The Guardian - UK · May 14

Who is Charles Bronson? Britain’s most notorious prisoner, will he finally be released after 50 years?

Charles Bronson, now legally Charles Salvador, has spent over 50 years in prison, much in solitary confinement, for violent offenses including hostage-taking. At 73, he faces his ninth parole review, with the board weighing his risk against decades of notoriety, personal transformation through art, and public fascination, famously dramatized by…

The Times of India · Feb 19

Secret prison documents show government plan to tackle IPP scandal will fail

Exclusive: Damning projections reveal the government’s action plan to progress IPP prisoners is a ‘failure’, which will leave at least 500 prisoners languishing without release 18 years after the sentence was abolished

The Independent UK · Feb 17

British terrorist who plotted bomb attack on Army base to be freed from prison

Zahid Iqbal has been behind bars since 2013

The Independent UK · Feb 12

One man’s struggle lights up a wider scandal

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: We urge ministers to read Haroon Ahmed’s story and to summon the courage to end the injustice of indefinite sentences for 2,400 other prisoners

The Independent UK · Jan 31

‘I was like a hostage. After almost 18 years on an indefinite jail term, they finally admitted my IPP sentence was wrong’

JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Exclusive: Haroon Ahmed, whose indefinite jail term was quashed in the Court of Appeal, says IPP prisoners are ‘hostages’ who have grown from teenagers to men watching more dangerous offenders be released, Amy-Clare Martin reports

The Independent UK · Jan 31

Jimmy Mizen Killer, Jake Fahri, Blocked From Open Prison After Sick Rap Boasting of Slaying

The Justice Secretary blocks Jake Fahri's move to an open prison after shocking drill lyrics about Jimmy Mizen's murder emerge, reigniting fury over rehabilitation, victims' rights and public safety.

International Business Times UK · Jan 17

Who was James Bulger and what happened to his killers?

James Bulger was two years old when he was murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in Bootle, Merseyside

The Independent UK · Jan 14