YVONNE Sleightholme continues to protest her innocence, but that is not the question at issue today.
Whether or not she killed a Ryedale farmer's wife, she has certainly been subject to an injustice at the hands of the prison authorities. The judge who sentenced Sleightholme recommended she should serve ten years. That was 12 years ago.
Last autumn the parole board refused her application for transfer to an open prison because she had not attended certain behavioural courses. In fact, she had.
The Evening Press and Ryedale MP John Greenway alerted the board to its blunder, and now it has agreed to re-examine her case. That is the right thing to do. All prisoners must be subject to the same rules.
Updated: 10:31 Friday, April 11, 2003
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