36-year-old Nicholas Bidar, serving IPP sentence for robberies, had his parole application rejected despite IPP system's abolition in 2012.
36-year-old Nicholas Bidar, serving an indefinite prison sentence under the abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) system, has had his parole application rejected. Bidar, who has been in prison since 2009 for a series of robberies, is one of thousands still behind bars on IPP sentences, despite the system being scrapped in 2012. He became the first IPP prisoner to have his parole review heard publicly, but the Parole Board deemed him "not safe for release" at this time.
March 27, 2024
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