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Be too late being freed

Boris Brexit deadline at risk with a delay likely

- Louie.smith@mirror.co.uk @smith_louie

Boris’s father and partner 2016, resulted in his being moved to an open prison. He was photograph­ed enjoying unescorted release.

His new parole hearing is set for November 7. It is feared that unrepentan­t Simms, who is now in his 60s and has always professed his innocence, could be freed.

Marie has spent the past few weeks finalising a Victim Personal Statement which will be presented to the board.

The mum, accompanie­d by husband

THIS was Boris Johnson’s Tory manifesto launch wrapped up in a Queen’s Speech. The monarch could be forgiven for privately seething as she regurgitat­ed the script from a rogue PM.

He is once again dragging her into politics, after lying in the summer to trick her into signing off on Parliament’s prorogatio­n. John Sandwell, 72, and son Michael, 51, said: “It was heartbreak­ing to write.

“Without a grave to tend, the pain is as raw and fresh as it was then. We have never been able to move forward.”

Marie’s local Labour MP Conor McGinn said: “I am so proud to call Marie a friend, and absolutely delighted her dignity, tenacity and just cause has been recognised by the Government.”

Helen’s Law will bring hope to families of the “missing murdered”. He’s squandered our money and the Queen’s time on this farce.

Not a single bill has a chance of becoming law since the PM is 40-plus votes short of a majority.

Johnson’s grip is loosening. In the speech, he stressed that “my Home Office figures obtained by the Mirror show in the past 10 years alone at least 50 killers have been convicted without their victim’s body found.

Missing victims include April Jones, five, who was murdered in Machynllet­h, Powys, by Mark Bridger in 2012. Bone fragments were recovered but her body has never been found.

Danielle Jones, 15, of East Tilbury, Essex, was killed in 2001 by her uncle Stuart Campbell. He will be up for parole in the next two years.

Jonathan Dolton, 20, disappeare­d from his Milton Keynes home in 2002. Colleague Stuart Martin, 40, was convicted of manslaught­er but refused to reveal the location of his remains.

Carole Packman, 40, disappeare­d in Bournemout­h in 1985. Husband Russell Causley was convicted of murder but daughter Sam has had no closure.

Yesterday Marie added: “Finding Helen is the first thing I think of when I wake and the last thing at night.

“Surely hiding a body and putting families through torture for as long as the killer wishes to cannot be allowed?” Government’s priority” is to leave Europe on October 31, not that we “will” leave then, which he has been insisting for weeks.

Odds are Johnson will miss the date and delay Brexit. Support for a referendum on any deal will grow, while Tory zealots, Nigel Farage and the DUP will accuse him of abandoning the cause. Marie holds pi c ture of Helen at Parliament BORIS Johnson is under pressure to break his “do or die” pledge to deliver Brexit on October 31 as we struggle to strike a deal with the EU.

Negotiatio­ns will go down to the wire tomorrow with the Irish border issue remaining a sticking point.

But the Prime Minister was warned another delay may be needed to finally get a deal through. Finnish leader Antti Rine, who holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said talks could continue after the crunch summit of EU leaders later this week.

He said: “There is no time in a practical or legal way to find an agreement before the EU Council meeting.”

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney added: “A deal is possible and it’s possible this month, maybe even this week. But we’re not there yet. There’s still a lot of work to do.”

It raises the possibilit­y of an emergency EU summit at the end of the month to approve any 11th-hour deal.

At the State Opening of CLASH Javid and Labour’s McDonnell

Parliament, the Queen’s Speech stopped short of repeating the PM’s vow to leave the EU on Halloween.

Mr Johnson faces a major Commons showdown after the summit in an emergency Saturday sitting, the first since the Falklands War.

If he fails to get a deal, he is expected to ask MPs to vote on a no-deal Brexit.

Opposition MPs could also table a vote on a second referendum. There are also concerns any deal would not get through Parliament – and if it did, there would not be time to get laws through.

But No 10 ruled out a delay even if a deal looked to be in sight. A spokesman said: “The PM is clear we leave on October 31.”

Meanwhile, a Brexit Budget will be held on November 6 – six days after we are due to leave the bloc.

Chancellor Sajid Javid said: “This is the right and responsibl­e thing to do.”

But Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell dismissed it as “an electionee­ring stunt”.

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