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Hartlepool Murderer Maria Pearson Back Behind Bars Just Weeks After Release
The 70-year-old was released in August after the Parole Board said she no longer posed a risk, then was recalled for breaching licence terms.
- Maria Pearson, 70, was returned to prison this week, just weeks after her August release following nearly 40 years behind bars for the 1986 murder of Janet Newton.
- Convicted at age 31 for the "cruel and vicious" murder of her 23-year-old love rival, Pearson served almost 40 years before a Parole Board panel deemed her safe for release earlier this year.
- Terms of her release included electronic tagging, a curfew, and strict prohibitions against contacting the victim's family, conditions the Probation Service monitors closely to ensure public safety.
- Reacting to the recall, Newton's sister Lynn Hamilton told Teesside Live: "I hope with all my heart that she stops in prison until the day she dies," expressing the victim's family's response.
- A recall review will now determine if Pearson must remain incarcerated, while the Probation Service stated: "We do not hesitate to put them straight back behind bars if they break the rules.
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MARIA Pearson is serving a sentence for the "cruel and brutal" murder of a woman who was her ex-husband's new partner.
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Great Yorkshire RadioMaria Pearson: Britain's longest-serving female prisoner back behind bars weeks after release
The 70-year-old was freed last month after a Parole Board decided she no longer posed a risk to the public - but she was later recalled to prison for breaching a condition of her licence.
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