John Massey, who was convicted of murder and escaped jail three times, has been freedBritain’s longest-serving prisoner has been released after nearly 43 years. Massey’s extraordinary story includes a prison break from Pentonville in 2012, in an attempt to see his mother, May, on her deathbed. Since Massey’s escape in 2012, he has had three pleas for freedom rejected by the Parole Board and served time in Belmarsh, one of the UK’s highest security prisons. Last week a panel decided that Massey, who has seen the inside of nearly every jail in the country, should be freed. Massey was later told a bed at a halfway house in London would need to be found before he could leave his cell.

Source: The Guardian May 03, 2018 15:29 UTC