03-05-2018 17:29 via uk.news.yahoo.com

UK's longest-serving prisoner released after nearly 43 years

Britain’s longest-serving prisoner has been released after nearly 43 years.John Massey, 69, was convicted in 1975 of the murder of Charlie Higgins, a pub doorman, and was handed a mandatory 20-year life sentence – but he spent more than twice as long in jail after escaping on two occasions to say goodbye to dying members of his family in Kentish Town, north London.Massey’s extraordinary story includes a prison break from Pentonville in 2012, in an attempt to see his mother, May
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