Parole

William Dunlop, known as Billy, strangled Julie Hogg in Billingham in 1989 and was convicted following a change to the 800-year-old double jeopardy law.

Steven Ling will be freed from prison after a judge refused the Justice Secretary's application to reconsider the Parole Board's recommendation for his release.

A parole hearing was due to take place in the case of Martin Bell, who is serving a life sentence for the manslaughter of Leeds woman Gemma Simpson.