A convicted robber remains behind bars almost three years after he was cleared of assaulting his partner Bicester.

Mark Bousfield who was given an 11 year extended sentence in 2009 for robbery and other matters, was arrested for allegedly assaulting his partner in the car park of Bicester Village shopping centre just eight days after he’d been released from prison on licence in October 2018.

He was recalled to prison in December of that year – two months after he’d been released on licence.

Bousfield was cleared by Oxford magistrates in January 2019 of common assault but remained in prison having been recalled to serve his 2009 jail sentence.

Last December, the Parole Board concluded he should not be released. They found ‘on the balance of probabilities’ that he had ‘employed aggression and violence’ against his partner in the shopping centre car park just eight days after his release from prison.

Now, the prisoner has won a judicial review at the High Court for the Parole Board to look again at that decision.

Quashing the Board’s decision not to release him, Mr Justice Lane agreed with Bousfield’s lawyers that there was an ‘absence of evidence’ to show his partner had been caused serious harm during the Bicester alleged assault.

He agreed that there was a presumption in law in favour of him being released and it was ‘procedurally unfair’ that the Parole Board hadn’t listened to evidence about whether his risk could be managed if he was released to live at his father-in-law’s house.

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