UK double murderer who tortured woman with cheesegrater could be freed | UK | News

Britain’s youngest double murderer, who tortured a woman with a cheese grater and poured salt into her wounds, is preparing for parole. Lorraine Thorpe was just 15 years old when she killed her father, Desmond Thorpe, 43, and Rosalyn Hunt, 41, in August 2009.

Thorpe, now 31, became the UK’s youngest double murderer and refused to attend his first parole hearing in September 2023, which was rejected. Rosalyn Hunt, 41, was tortured to death with a cheese grater and rubbed salt into her wounds by Thorpe and his friend Paul Clarke, who died in prison in 2014.

The mother of three was also beaten, had broken ribs, was branded and whipped with dog chains.

Her friends also killed Lorraine’s father Desmond, 43, by smothering the disabled man with a pillow.

Thorpe later admitted to police that they would find ‘his trainer’s fingerprints on his head’.

He was found guilty and imprisoned in 2010 and was told he would serve at least 14 years in prison.

Thorpe is due back in court in February and is expected to testify for a new parole hearing.

The new hearing will be held in camera and a decision will be made within 14 days.

A Parole Board spokesman said: “An oral hearing for Lorraine Thorpe’s parole review has been scheduled and is scheduled for February 2026.

“Parole Board decisions focus solely on what risk an inmate might pose to society if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.”

Clarke, 46, was found dead in his prison cell at HMP Whitemoor in Cambs in September 2014 as he was sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison.