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Headmaster killer freed from jail
11:43am Saturday 30th August 2008
The man convicted of murdering headmaster Philip Lawrence has been released from prison.
Learco Chindamo, 27, was jailed for life for fatally stabbing the father-of-four outside his school in Maida Vale, west London, in December 1995.
The Sun newspaper reported that Chindamo was freed from Ford Open Prison in West Sussex around three weeks ago.
He is believed to have been given a new identity and been moved to a secret address away from London where he grew up.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said that he could not confirm that Chindamo had been released.
He said: "We do not comment on individual cases."
Italian-born Chindamo, who was 15 at the time of the killing, was ordered to be detained indefinitely after being found guilty of Mr Lawrence's murder and was given a 12-year minimum tariff.
In August last year an immigration tribunal ruled he should be allowed to stay in Britain after serving his sentence.
Mr Lawrence's widow, Frances, reacted angrily to the decision as she said she had always been given the impression he would be deported to his native Italy after leaving jail.
She criticised the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal's ruling, saying the Human Rights Act was supposed to have granted her husband the right to life, but instead worked in the "best interest" of his killer.
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Headmaster Philip Lawrence was stabbed to death outside his school
Reports say that killer Learco Chindamo has been released from prison
Philip Lawrence's widow Frances
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