Marie McCourt, 77, says Ian Simms, 64, should not have been freed without revealing where Helen’s body is hidden. She said the Parole Board’s decision last November to release him on licence was unreasonable, irrational and wrong. (Image: PA)Joanne Cecil, for Simms, said the Parole Board decision was not irrational. And Nicholas Chapman, for the Parole Board, said an increase in “victim participation” in Parole Board decisions would have “significant ramifications” for the way hearings were conducted. The campaign for a law forcing the Parole Board to consider a prisoner’s lack of cooperation was launched in the Mirror in 2015 by Mrs McCourt.

Source: Daily Mirror July 29, 2020 22:06 UTC