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Man who raped and killed two schoolgirls safe to be released from jail, Parole Board says

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Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A double murderer, who raped and killed two schoolgirls in the 1980s can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has decided.

Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years after strangling Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, both 15, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.

In 1988, he became the first man convicted of murder on the basis of DNA evidence after the world’s first mass screening for DNA, which saw 5,000 men in three villages volunteering blood or saliva samples.

Pitchfork, who was in his 20s, pleaded guilty to two offences of murder, two of rape, two of indecent assault and one of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

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