I’ve served my time – now I want freedom: Prisoner makes landmark parole bid against indefinite jail term

The first IPP prisoner to have his parole bid held in public has revealed how each day is “torture” serving a sentence with no release date.

Controversial imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences were scrapped in 2012 amid human rights concerns, but not retrospectively, leaving thousands languishing in jail for years beyond their minimum tariff.

Among them is Nicholas Bidar, 36, who was handed an with an eight-year minimum tariff for a string of robberies and using a gun to resist arrest aged 20 in 2008.