OWEN Oyston may have to wait until the new year before the Parole Board reconsiders his case - even though a High Court judge told them he regarded it as a matter of urgency.

Now MP Dale Campbell-Savours is taking up the delay with the Parole Board.

He says they acted unlawfully in refusing Oyston parole and says it "makes a mockery of Oyston's exemplary conduct in prison."

The MP says it also makes a mockery of last week's judicial review as the the prisoner's normal release date, without parole, is only six months away.

He wrote to the Board: "I hear that your solicitor said the Board would be forced to delay re-examination of the application for two months because they did not have transcripts of the judicial review.

Yet even when Oyston's solicitor offered you immediate delivery of a transcript, you refused the prisoner an immediate rehearing of his case."

Oyston, on learning of the Parole Board's delay in looking again at his application, said: "I have no hope of being given parole. "Neither of the two main political parties wants me out as a free man so I can investigate the conspiracy which led to my sentence."

The flamboyant multi-millionaire is over half-way through a six-year sentence for the rape of a young fashion model.

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