'A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims. 'Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community. now 85, can now be released on licence.Ī spokesperson for the Parole Board said: 'We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board has directed the release of Bachan Athwal following an oral hearing.
The Parole Board announced today that Bachan. She disappeared after going with her mother-in-law from the UK to India for a family wedding in December 1998. Her body has never been found. A tyrannical grandmother who arranged for her own daughter-in-law to be lured to India and murdered will be free in weeks.īrutal Bachan Kaur Athwal, then 70, was one of the oldest people to be jailed for murder when she was convicted in 2007.īachan and son Sukhdave Athwal, then 43, were sentenced to life after being found guilty of the honour killing of Surjit Athwal, 27.
