The first murderer to be jailed after changes to the 800-year-old double jeopardy law – spearheaded by his victim’s mother – has said he would have killed again had she not pursued her campaign for justice.
William Dunlop, known as Billy, on Wednesday started his fourth application with the Parole Board to move him to an open prison and consider his release.
Dunlop, now 63, strangled Julie Hogg in her home in Billingham, Co Durham, in 1989 and hid her mutilated body behind a bath panel.
Miss Hogg’s mother, Ann Ming, discovered her body there more than two months after her death.
Dunlop had
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