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In a letter to DePree’s legal team on Dec. 12, the Council refused to effect the ownership transfer.

“Whenever we sent Lexington Police Department out to speak to him and he refused to do that — I mean, what kind of person does that? What kind of person just says he don’t care?”

But in a ruling late Wednesday, the Court of Auditors, which oversees public spending, refused to approve the decision.

Pitchfork was also refused a transfer to an open prison, with the Parole Board deciding he had not made "sufficient progress in addressing and reducing risk".

At their daily press briefing for journalists, Downing Street refused to say whether the code had been broken.