Murderer and kidnapper Michael Sams will remain in prison
Similarly, Sams was not found to meet the criteria for transfer to an open prison.
"The panel also examined the option for Mr Sams to be managed in an open prison with lower levels of security and where at times he would be in the community during periods of temporary release," said the decision summary. "It concluded that he did not meet the criteria for such a transfer." The panel had considered the circumstances of his offending, progress made while in custody, and also evidence presented at the hearing.The kidnapping of Stephanie SlaterSams was 51 when he was given a life sentence in 1993 for murdering Ms Dart, who was 18, and kidnapping Stephanie Slater, who was 25.As well as kidnapping Ms Slater in 1992, he had falsely imprisoned her and demanded a £175,000 ransom for her safe return.
Ms Slater, who died of cancer in 2017, was kept handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded in a coffin-like box, itself locked inside a wheelie bin in Sams' workshop in Newark-upon-Trent.Image source,Stephanie Slater worked as an estate agent and was kidnapped during a bogus house viewing Sams was caught when his third wife recognised his voice from a clip played on the BBC's Crimewatch programme.Sams was fighting to re-categorise his prisoner status from category A and told a High Court judge the level of risk he posed to women prison staff had fallen over the years.
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