Victims and their families today urged the government to take High Court action to prevent the release of a notorious serial rapist who struck across Greater Manchester. Yesterday, it was revealed by the Manchester Evening News that the Parole Board had stuck by its decision to free Andrew Barlow, formerly, Andrew Longmire, despite an application by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab, to keep him in custody.
Between 1981 and 1988, Barlow went on two separate campaigns of terror, raping women in five different counties. The first was between 1981 and 1984 and the second between August 1987 and his arrest in January 1988, when he opened fire with a shotgun as two police officers detained him. The victim was raped by Barlow in her home in Greater Manchester in 1987. A mother-of-two, her children were not at home and her partner had left for work, leaving her alone. Barlow held a knife to her face during the attack.
She was in her late twenties when Barlow got into her home: "I'll never forget his eyes. He held a knife to my throat. I remember exactly what he was wearing. He was in a green jacket with a scarf across the lower part of his face." Mr Raab applied to the Parole Board for reconsideration of their decison on January 17, arguing that the panel which sanctioned Barlow’s release “failed to take proper account of the evidence regarding risk and in particular the expert psychology evidence”. This was based on slightly differing reports from two psychologists about the safety of Barlow’s release – one declared him safe, while another said he should be “further tested in ‘open’ ” before being confirmed for release.
“The Board’s decision to dismiss this application simply reinforces the need for our reforms to overhaul the system, so we can put public safety at the heart of parole decisions and keep prisoners who remain at risk behind bars.”
That’s disgusting I can’t believe that DominicRaab asking for him not to be released fell on deaf ears?
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