{"id":26282,"date":"2025-04-03T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/double-jeopardy-killer-william-dunlop-refused-open-prison-move\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:42:57","slug":"double-jeopardy-killer-william-dunlop-refused-open-prison-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/double-jeopardy-killer-william-dunlop-refused-open-prison-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Double jeopardy killer William Dunlop refused open prison move"},"content":{"rendered":"


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William Dunlop was jailed for life in 2006<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A murderer who was only jailed for killing a woman after a change in the double jeopardy law will not be moved to an open prison, despite a recommendation by the Parole Board.<\/p>\n

William Dunlop strangled Julie Hogg, 22, and hid her body beneath a bath at her home in Billingham, County Durham, in 1989, but juries twice failed to find him guilty.<\/p>\n

Dunlop was eventually jailed for life with a minimum term of 17 years in 2006 following a successful campaign to change the law by Ms Hogg’s family.<\/p>\n

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood made the decision to “block” Dunlop’s move to open conditions despite the board assessing him as “presenting a low risk of absconding”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “Julie Hogg’s murder was a horrific crime and our thoughts remain with her friends and family.<\/p>\n

“Public protection is our number one priority which is why we have blocked William Dunlop’s transfer to open prison.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Julie Hogg was a 22-year-old mother of one when she was murdered<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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While in prison for other offences, Dunlop boasted to a prison guard about getting away with the killing, but he could not be prosecuted again for the same crime after being acquitted twice.<\/p>\n

Ms Hogg’s family got the law changed and he was jailed.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Ms Hogg’s family said they were “elated” and said Mahmood had “truly put victims’ at the heart of the system”.<\/p>\n

“The decision to refuse the parole board’s recommendation is the right decision for public safety.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Hogg’s mother Ann Ming found her body three months after she was killed.<\/p>\n

She had attended the public part of the panel hearing discussing Dunlop’s move.<\/p>\n

Ms Ming previously said the man who lied and then bragged about strangling and sexually assaulting her daughter before hiding her body beneath a bath should never be released.<\/p>\n

She had told the BBC<\/a>: “We as a family are doing a life sentence, we are living and breathing what he did until the day I die.”<\/p>\n

Dunlop had told the Parole Board panel he had been a “violent, hideous, uncaring person”<\/a> who could have gone on to kill other people.<\/p>\n

But he claimed he had changed in prison and deeply regretted the man he had been.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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