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After three and a half weeks on the run, late on the night of 23 October 1983, Hutchinson broke into the home of Basil
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On 1 June 2015, Hutchinson's case was referred to the Grand
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had 12 months earlier, on the condition that such sentences were reviewed within 25 years of the offender being sentenced. Within four months, however, it was reported that he was returning to the
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at knife-point before fleeing. Just hours earlier, the family had hosted the wedding reception of their other daughter
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rape. He asked to go to the toilet, and whilst there, he jumped out of a window in an attempt to escape and cut his knee on barbed wire.
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against his sentence, with the court's judges ruling that whole life tariffs were appropriate in certain cases, just as the
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