Huddersfield Murderer has jail term reduced

Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:00

A man who was jailed as a teenager for the racist murder of a Huddersfield taxi driver has had his minimum jail term reduced after a court heard how he is now a “changed man.”

Graeme Paul Slavin, now 28, was one of a gang of four white youths who were convicted for the brutal killing of 41-year-old Mohammed Parvaiz in July 2006 – which was believed to be a racially aggravated attack. Mr Parvaiz was lured in his taxi to Field Head in Golcar and subjected to a horrendous assault with fists, feet and weapons. Slavin, who was only 17 at the time, was sentenced to a minimum jail term of 17 years behind bars.

Today,High Court judge Mrs Justice McGowan cut the sentence from 17 years to 15 as she was presented with reports of the progress Slavin has made in jail. The court also heard letters from members of Mr Parvaiz family stating: the sentence should not be reduced and any decision to show any kind of leniency would be unfair.

Judge Justice McGowan said “It is essential that the family and friends of Mohammed Parvaiz and Slavin himself understand that a reduction in jail time is not, in any way, to diminish the wickedness and savagery of the assault which killed Mr Parvaiz The reduction does not mean Slavin will automatically be released at that point, it simply means that the consideration of release on licence for the rest of his life can be carried out sooner by the Parole Board”

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