So How Have They Determined That This Savage Is Safe To Release?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/steven-ling-man-who-admitted-rape-and-murder-of-woman-he-stabbed-60-times-should-be-freed-parole-board-says-13211950

 

[Rosetta]

The parole board are not fit for purpose. Can the Home Secretary reverse this decision?

[max137]

Like many things these days out of touch not fit for purpose.

[JDavis]

Parole boards and psychiatrists have been wrong before.

[davebro3]

and right presumably?

[bhg481]

Somebody must sign a piece of paper stating that such a person is safe to release. If things go wrong should they not be held responsible?

[Old_Geezer]

Were that so, then stating a professional opinion would be dangerous to the professional, and all would refuse the job, and authorities would have to toss a coin to see if a prisoner should be released.

[davebro3]

He's been in jail 26 years - if he's not fit to release now he never will be (or maybe only when he's so old & mentally or physically incapacitated that he needs a nursing home).

Capital punishment would have avoided all the heart searching.

[Canary42]

Fingers crossed they know what they're doing  (but I won't be holding my breath, too many disasters in the past).

One of the reasons given is "behaviour was exemplary in prison" - hardly surprising, opportunities to rape young women are a bit thin on the ground in gaol, and he hardly sounds likely to embrace homosexual opportunities.