The UK construction industry is set to benefit from a significant pipeline of work, as the government pushes forward with a ...

Maria Pearson was imprisoned in 1987, and now aged 68, has become the UK's longest-serving female inmate, surpassing Myra ...

David Gauke had also previously pointed to the use of open prisons in Spain, where 25% of offenders are housed in lower security jails, with inmates able to leave prison for study and work during ...

A murderer who was only jailed for killing a woman after a change in the double jeopardy law will not be moved to an open prison, despite a recommendation by the Parole Board. William Dunlop ...

The Government has stopped a killer who murdered a pizza delivery woman from moving to an open prison despite a recommendation by the Parole Board. William Dunlop, now 61, strangled Julie Hogg in ...

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But last month officials decided he was suitable for release to an open prison, noting there had been “a very substantial change in his degree of self-knowledge and self-control”. Ms Mahmood ...

But the Parole Board recently decided on an open prison, noting a big change in his “self-knowledge”. Ms Mahmood has now vetoed this after an agonising wait for the family. Mrs Ming and her ...