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    Rapist who drowned mum is set for release from prison despite whole-life sentence

    by Ben Mitchell Apr 09, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: PA/PA Wire

    The children of a woman killed by a man serving a whole-life sentence have described how the possibility of his release from prison on “compassionate grounds” makes their “blood boil” and would be a “national scandal”.

    Victor Farrant was jailed for life for the murder of his former girlfriend Glenda Hoskins, 44, and the attempted murder of Ann Fidler, 45, at Winchester Crown Court in 1998.

    Sentencing him, Mr Justice Butterfield had said: “This murder was so terrible and you are so dangerous that

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