Double child killer Colin Pitchfork to have public parole hearing

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork’s next public hearing will be held this summer. The parole board granted the request for a public hearing in the case in the “interest of justice,” according to a decision published Thursday (May 16).

The hearing is due to take place in July. Parole board hearings are normally held behind closed doors but can now, in certain circumstances, be held in public if requested, after changes were made to the law in an attempt to remove the secrecy behind the process.

Caroline Corby, chair of the Parole Board, said: “We have carefully considered Mr Pitchfork’s representations and have come to the conclusion that the interests of justice outweigh the points raised on Mr Pitchfork’s behalf.”

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Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 after raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.