Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth
Double child rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork will face a fresh hearing after challenging a decision to keep him behind bars.
Pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.
He was granted parole but this was challenged by ministers and the Parole Board denied his release in December.
Pitchfork applied for that decision to be reconsidered, and this was granted.
It means he will face a new hearing with a different panel of Parole Board members.
Pitchfork, who was the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence, was released in 2021 but recalled two months later.
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