Parot Doctrine prisoners released: British-based ETA terrorist Antonio Troitiño
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 @ 2:01 AM
A TERRORIST held in a UK prison after killing 22 people in the fatal bombings in Madrid perpetrated by the recently-released Inés de Río Prada has been let out on probation as a result of a recent ECHR verdict, but it is not clear whether the British courts will push for his extradition to Spain.
Antonio Troitiño, now 56, was sentenced to 2,200 years in jail for various attacks in the 1980s when he was a member of Basque terrorist cell ETA, including a devastating blast in Madrid's Plaza de la República Dominicana on July 14, 1986 (pictured below right).
Along with Del Río Prada, he would only have to serve the then maximum sentence of 30 years, but the so-called Parot Doctrine was applied which meant any early-release time he had accumulated through 'good behaviour' would come off his actual sentence – 2,200 years – rather than the term he was required to serve.
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