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Childers backpacker hostel killer Robert Long’s release bid quashed by Parole Board Queensland
The man who set fire to the Childers Palace Backpacker Hostel, killing 15 people in 2000, has been denied parole.
Robert Paul Long was sentenced to life in prison, with a non-parole period of 20 years, over the blaze he lit deliberately that destroyed the hostel in southern Queensland in June 2000.
Long was convicted of murdering two people killed in the blaze.
The ABC has confirmed his bid for freedom was rejected by the Parole Board Queensland on Tuesday.
Long applied to be released from prison when he became eligible for parole in June last year.
The application, which was lodged just weeks before the 20th anniversary of the…
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