Mum ‘fears for safety of all women’ after daughter’s sadistic killer is released

A parent whose girl was raped and stabbed 60 times successful a sadistic murder says she is ‘filled with fearfulness for the information of each women’ aft her slayer was freed from prison.

Steven Ling was jailed for beingness successful December 1998 for the horrific execution of Joanne Tulip, 29, successful Stamfordham, Northumberland.

The erstwhile labourer was recommended for merchandise by the Parole Board past year.

Joanne’s mum, Doreen Soulsby, said she got the quality connected Wednesday ‘that I person been dreading’.

Ms Soulsby said: ‘Today, I received the devastating quality that the offender, Steven Ling, who savagely raped and murdered my girl has been released from situation and allowed backmost into the community.

‘I received the email this greeting and consequent telephone telephone that I person been dreading, ever since the Parole Board decided to merchandise Ling from prison.’

She said: ‘Ling’s merchandise is simply a sedate mistake by the Parole Board, 1 that has profoundly shaken my assurance successful the justness system.

‘I americium present filled with fearfulness for the information of each women, particularly young women, knowing that Ling, who committed the astir horrific and sadistic crimes against my daughter, is nary longer down bars.

‘I firmly judge helium poses a important hazard and volition reoffend.’

Ling was recommended for merchandise pursuing his 5th parole proceeding past year.

The Parole Board was past asked by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to reconsider its proposal connected the ground that it was legally irrational, but the determination was upheld.

A committee spokesperson said astatine the time: ‘Decisions of the Parole Board are solely focused connected what hazard a captive could correspond to the nationalist and whether that hazard is manageable successful the community.

‘When assessing the reconsideration application, the justice recognised the precise important gravity of the lawsuit and the profound ongoing interaction connected the victim’s family.’

Ling was inspired to execution Ms Tulip connected Christmas Day 1997 by sadism, Newcastle Crown Court heard astatine the time. He stabbed her 60 times.

A complaint of rape was near connected record during the archetypal tribunal case, truthful helium is not a convicted enactment offender, but successful its ruling the Parole Board said: ‘Mr Ling has ever accepted that helium raped the victim.’

Sentencing him to beingness successful prison, Mr Justice Potts told Ling, who was 23 astatine the clip of the murder: ‘You volition ne'er beryllium released truthful agelong arsenic it is thought you represent a information to women.’

Ling was handed a beingness condemnation with a minimum word of 20 years, which was reduced to 18 years by the High Court.

The Parole Board judgement said Ling has since admitted committing a fig of acts of indecent vulnerability earlier helium murdered Ms Tulip but was ne'er caught.

The sheet accepted helium had undertaken an authoritative programme to code his convulsive and intersexual offending, and his behaviour successful situation ‘has mostly been exemplary’.

His merchandise was taxable to conditions which see informing the authorities of immoderate relationships helium mightiness develop, being taxable to monitoring and a curfew, and staying retired of an exclusion portion to debar interaction with his victim’s family.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: ‘Our thoughts stay with the household and friends of Joanne Tulip.

‘Steven Ling volition beryllium connected licence for the remainder of his life, with strict conditions and intensive probation supervision aft helium is released, including not to interaction Joanne’s family.

‘He faces an contiguous instrumentality to situation if helium breaks the rules.’

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