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'He should never be released': Paedophile bus driver who murdered Manchester schoolboy and then ...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/greater-manchester-darren-vickers-parole-25473387'He should never be released': Paedophile bus driver who murdered Manchester schoolboy and then moved in with his family could be out in weeks
Bus driver Darren Vickers was jailed in 1999 but the Parole Board will consider his release in February
By John Scheerhout, Crime reporter
16:48, 13 NOV 2022
UPDATED 20:18, 13 NOV 2022
In a few months Darren Vickers - who committed one of the most chilling child murders Greater Manchester has seen - will be considered for release from his life sentence, the M.E.N. can reveal.
Now 56, the monster has already served his minimum 25 year period behind bars and he could be released as early as February.
He is behind bars for the May 1997 abduction and murder of eight-year-old Jamie Lavis, a schoolboy from Openshaw who he groomed and snatched after he boarded the bus he was driving.
A quarter of a century on, it remains one of the darkest days in Manchester's criminal history, the awful crime compounded by what happened afterwards.
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Bus driver Darren Vickers was jailed in 1999 but the Parole Board will consider his release in February
By John Scheerhout, Crime reporter
16:48, 13 NOV 2022
UPDATED 20:18, 13 NOV 2022
In a few months Darren Vickers - who committed one of the most chilling child murders Greater Manchester has seen - will be considered for release from his life sentence, the M.E.N. can reveal.
Now 56, the monster has already served his minimum 25 year period behind bars and he could be released as early as February.
He is behind bars for the May 1997 abduction and murder of eight-year-old Jamie Lavis, a schoolboy from Openshaw who he groomed and snatched after he boarded the bus he was driving.
A quarter of a century on, it remains one of the darkest days in Manchester's criminal history, the awful crime compounded by what happened afterwards.
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