The Ministry of Justice has announced that it has requested the Parole Board to review its decision to release Colin Pitchfork, the double child killer, from prison.

Colin Pitchfork was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of Lynda Mann in 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1986. Both victims were 15 years old at the time of their deaths.

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