{"id":431946,"date":"2026-02-18T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:21:08","slug":"man-who-killed-mum-with-meat-cleaver-in-birkenhead-gets-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431946\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who killed mum with meat cleaver in Birkenhead gets parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board has directed the release of Stephen Wynne following an oral hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wynne admitted murdering the 27-year-old and was jailed for life at Liverpool Crown Court in 2006. Her remains have never been recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His victim&#8217;s mother Jean Taylor previously told a court that the murder caused the family &#8220;deep distress and devastation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had previously joined other victims of crime to deliver a petition to 10 Downing Street, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/merseyside\/7448731.stm\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which called for life sentences to &#8220;mean life&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor had also previously said it would be an &#8220;injustice&#8221; that Wynne could be released in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It is an insult to her name and her memory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Why should Steven Wynne come out and have Christmases with his family when I will never have a Christmas with my daughter?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson said: &#8220;We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board has directed the release of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-431946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}