Psychologist backs release of prisoner in jail for 18 years for stealing a mobile phone in a street robbery

Psychologist backs release of prisoner in jail for 18 years for stealing a mobile phone in a street robbery

Photo Gareth Copley PA Images Martin Shipton A clinical psychologist wrote a comprehensive report recommending the release of a prisoner who has spent more than 18 years in jail for an unarmed street robbery in which he stole a mobile phone. Leroy Douglas, now 43, from Cardiff, was told he had to serve a minimum sentence of two years and six months before he could be released, but he remains trapped in a now abolished Imprisonment for Public Pro…