Moment man tries to walk back into prison rather than spend another night in hostel with sex offenders
07.04.2022 - 11:41
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man attempted to hand himself into a police station to avoid sleeping in a hostel with sex offenders.
Lee Armstrong, 41, was released from prison five weeks ago. He had been locked up for the past 18 years for robbery after stealing a mobile phone from someone in a pub.
His lengthy prison term was a result of an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPPS) sentence, first introduced in April 2005. These types of sentences have been set up to protect members of the public from serious offenders whose crimes did not merit a life sentence, Hull Live reports.
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Instead, offenders serve a minimum term which they must spend in prison. Upon completing their sentence they can apply to the Parole Board for release where they can either be given parole on supervised licence for at least 10 years or be outright refused for parole. Lee was originally given three years in jail - but remained inside for 15 more years.
Since his eventual release five weeks ago, Lee has not committed an offence or breached his licence. But he has been housed at a Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE) Pipeline Hostel in York which provides accommodation for lifers on their release. He claims that he has been housed with sex offenders and can no longer take it and says prison seems like a better choice than the hostel, where he hears horror stories of what his fellow residents have committed.
As Lee exited a car with his girlfriend to head to the police station, he said: "I’m at the police station handing myself in for absolutely nothing. “I have been housed with n****s (sex offenders). Gotta go back to jail. I had got my life sorted out, I’ve got a good family. I’m doing well but it is still not good enough. It’s an absolute
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