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One of the men convicted of the baseball bat murder of a Catholic schoolboy has won High Court permission to challenge a decision to deny him re-release from prison.
Mervyn Moon was jailed for his part in the fatal attack on 15-year-old Michael McIlveen in Ballymena, Co Antrim back in May 2006.
Moon, 32, had previously been freed on licence after serving the minimum 10-year tariff on his life sentence.
In 2017 those arrangements were revoked and he was recalled to prison for an alleged breach.
He is challenging a decision taken by Northern Ireland s Parole Commissioners in June 2020 to refuse his bid to be let out again.