#parole-board

#parole-board

In April, Healey nominated Vincent DeMore to serve on the board after former member Tonomey Coleman was confirmed as a district court judge. The governor praised DeMore's "deep understanding of the justice system from multiple perspectives" in announcing his nomination. DeMore served as a prosecutor in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office from 2007 to 2019, including a one-year stint overseeing a team of 70 attorneys as the office's Chief of District Courts and Community Prosecutions. DeMore went on to found Henning Strategies, a Boston law firm, where he now works as a defense attorney.

Only two of the men - Norris and Gary Dobson - who were involved in the racist stabbing of the 18-year-old in Eltham, south London, in April 1993 have ever been brought to justice, with four other suspects never convicted. His father Dr Neville Lawrence told BBC News: "For me to think that [Norris is] safe to be released, is for him to give the names of the people with him that night."