Child killer Michael Mayola, Alabama’s longest-serving prison inmate, up for parole
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
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As of this morning, Michael Mayola has served 58 years, two months, and four days in prison for the 1962 kidnapping and murder of Midfield 11-year-old Larry Wayne Thomas.
On Thursday, Mayola, who was born in 1933 and is Alabama’s longest serving state prison inmate, is scheduled to appear before the state parole board.
It isn’t the first time Mayola has had a chance to leave prison.
In 2003, Mayola, who is either 87 or 88-years-old and is currently serving life with parole at Easterling Correctional Facility in Barbour County, waived an appearance before the parole board.
The tragedy at Gleision Colliery retold as the 10-year anniversary approaches
Garry Jenkins, 39, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 45, and Charles Breslin, 62, were killed at the Gleision Colliery following a blast on September 15, 2011
This year will mark 10 years since the Gleision mining disaster which claimed the lives of four men (Image: Robert Melen)
On one fateful day in autumn four men went to work and didn t come back following Wales biggest modern mining disaster.
Garry Jenkins, 39, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 45, and Charles Breslin, 62, were killed at the Gleision Colliery following an incident on September 15, 2011.
They were working on a routine blasting operation at the pit in Cilybebyll, near Pontardawe, but disaster struck when the tunnel they were working in began filling with water. The miners and pit manager Malcolm Fyfield blasted through to flooded old workings, causing 650,000 gallons of water to gush into the mine.
Here are some of the high-profile local public safety stories in chronological order from 2020:
April 12: Adam Joseph Decker, 34, told investigators that a 9 mm weapon he was holding went off accidentally while he and Kristi Breland were cooking dinner on Easter Sunday. Decker told 911 dispatchers he had accidentally shot his live-in girlfriend at 107 M Coffey Lane, located in southern Washington County just below the Nolichucky River near Erwin. Deputies arrived to find Breland, 30, dead in the kitchen and Decker in the dining room. The couple had friends over earlier in the day for some target shooting. After the friends left, the couple went back into their residence and got into an alcohol-fueled argument, authorities said. Decker told police he decided to go to bed and when he picked up his pistol, it went off.
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The Welsh-only hotel in England that hasn t had a single paying guest in 2020
For the first time in 70 years, only an eerie silence fills the rooms at the Court Royal (Image: COURT ROYAL HOTEL)
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