The UK’s longest-serving female prisoner is to be freed from prison – despite warnings that she could still pose a ‘high risk’ of causing ‘serious harm’.
‘Forgotten inmate’ Maria Pearson, now 70, has spent almost four decades behind bars for stabbing her ex-boyfriend’s new partner to death in 1986.
The mother-of-three was previously transferred to an open prison before being sent back to closed conditions over concerns about her behaviour.
Ahead of her tenth bid for parole, relatives of victim Janet Newton pleaded for her to remain locked up, saying they were convinced she remained ‘dangerous’.
But despite offender managers assessing that she ‘posed
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