Grieving relatives have expressed their pain and anger after the chief executive of the Parole Board was made a CBE for services to victims.
The honour for Martin Jones, who has been in post since 2015, comes just days after an outcry over the Parole Board’s decision to release Colin Pitchfork, who raped and killed two schoolgirls in the 1980s.
Pitchfork was the first man convicted of murder on the basis of DNA evidence and was jailed for life for strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.
Colin Pitchfork was the first man convicted of murder on the basis of DNA evidence (Handout/PA)