"Pearson's 'doomed' relationship with Malcolm Pearson (pictured) was 'intense and stormy' and their baby was taken into care after a serious incident at their home
Aged 31, Pearson was found guilty of murder in 1987 and ordered to serve a minimum 12 years of a life sentence before being considered for parole.
However her requests to be released were repeatedly turned down, leading to campaigners labelling her the UK’s ‘forgotten inmate’.
In 2006, then home secretary John Reid rejected a Parole Board recommendation for Pearson to be moved to an open prison and prepared for release.
She was later twice moved to an open prison before being returned to higher-security jails amid concerns over her behaviour.
This June the Parole Board approved her release on licence – despite offender managers assessing that she ‘posed a high risk of causing serious harm’.
It said the ‘finely balanced decision’ was made on the basis that once Pearson is freed, she would have to abide ‘strictly’ by conditions including being tracked by GPS for 12 months and follow a curfew."
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