Overview
- The oral hearing is set for February and will consider whether Peter Voisey can be safely released, with no decision made yet.
- This review is Voisey’s sixth parole assessment since his life sentence with a minimum term of 10 years.
- Parole Board guidance says panels examine behavior change, clinical assessments, probation reports, and the impact on victims, focusing solely on public safety.
- Voisey was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court of rape, sexual assault, and abduction, and the sentencing judge warned he might never be released.
- The 2005 offense involved abducting a six-year-old from a bath in Willington Quay, with police linking Voisey through partial shoe prints, a diary entry, and a collapsed alibi after the child was found by local resident Geoffrey Brown.