Double child killer Colin Pitchfork has been released from prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed. He was jailed in 1988 for raping and murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire.

What happened to Colin Pitchfork?

Pitchfork, now 61, walked free last week after 33 years behind bars when parole chiefs released him from his life sentence. Now living in a parole hostel at an undisclosed location, he has been set free after doing jailtime for strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire.

Is Colin Pitchfork being released?

Colin Pitchfork, the serial paedophile who raped and murdered two schoolgirls, has been released from prison and will have some of the tightest licence conditions ever imposed on a non-terrorist convict. ... He walked free from prison on Wednesday after the Parole Board ruled he was no longer a danger to the public.