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Dave Higgens

MYSTERIOUS: Parole board upholds ruling that sadistic killer should be released | Mind Blowing Facts

Steven Ling, who raped and stabbed Joanne Tulip 60 times in a sadistic murder in Northumberland 27 years ago (PA) - (PA Media)

The Parole Board has refused to overturn its ruling that a sadistic killer who murdered a woman in 1997 should be released.

The board was asked by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to reconsider its recommendation that farm worker Steven Ling should be released after serving 27 years of his life sentence for the murder of Joanne Tulip, 29, in Stamfordham, Northumberland.

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