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Court LIVE: Teesside's Billy Dunlop launches freedom bid after murder

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  • It's Graeme Hetherington live from Teesside Crown Court this morning as Billy Dunlop is set to have a parole hearing after murdering a pizza delivery girl.
  • William Dunlop, known as Billy, was eventually jailed for Julie Hogg’s brutal murder thanks to her mother’s devotion to fighting for justice.
  • Ann Ming, supported by a long-running Northern Echo campaign, fought for 15 years to overturn the 800-year-old double jeopardy law, which prevented people being tried twice for the same offence.
  • Dunlop's public parole hearing will start today. The killer, now in his 60s, will not attend the Royal Courts of Justice (RCJ) in person, but the hearing will be streamed at the RCJ from prison.

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