on a licence in the community. our home affairs correspondent is dominic casciani. how has this come about? colin pitchfork committed murders in the 1980s, some of the most notorious crimes of the decade. he killed leicestershire school girls lynda mann and dawn ashworth and when he was jailed in 1988 he was given a lifetime with a minimum 30 year sentence and he served three years longer than that in practice so ultimately but i would come when the parole board would need to decide whether at the end of that minimum term he was safe to be released into the community. and in june this year the parole board, a judge led process involving prison psychologists concluded he had completed all his behaviour programmes in prison and could be safely managed. today he was moved from a prison to a bail hostel well