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)
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SIR – Prolonging current restrictions is now at odds with the data.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease that is said to spread in much the same way as influenza. Yet, despite lockdowns and precautions, deaths from influenza and pneumonia have been higher than Covid-19 since March.
Office for National Statistics weekly figures put deaths involving influenza and pneumonia at 1,171 (the underlying cause in 287 cases). Deaths involving Covid-19 were 151 (the underlying cause in 108 cases).
We should be making the most of the spring and summer, when these diseases are in natural remission.
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