The monster who raped and killed schoolgirls could be released this summer

A monster who raped and strangled two schoolgirls could be released from prison this summer.

Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life after raping and murdering Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. For many years Lynda’s sister Rebecca Eastwood, from Anfield, campaigned to keep him behind bars for the rest of your life.

Pitchfork was briefly released in September 2021 after his minimum 30-year term was reduced by two years in 2009. But he was recalled to prison two months later after he approached young women on the street.

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After appealing in December 2023, the Parole Board decided he would not be released from prison after a review at that time. Reacting to Colin Pitchfork’s earlier release in 2021, Dawn Ashworth’s mother Barbara Ashworth told the PA news agency: “Well, it was on the cards that he was going to be released, but I don’t think he should breathe. the same air as us.

The devastated mum said: “It goes without saying that life should have meant life in his case because he said he was guilty of the offences, the murders of both girls… and he did a lot more than that “.

The parole board said today that the Pitchfork double child killer’s next hearing will be held in public in July.

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