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Story summary
- UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he will end IPP sentences before this parliament ends.
- Leroy Douglas, 45, will be released in October 2026 after serving an IPP sentence since 2005.
- He was first jailed in 2005 at age 24 for stealing a mobile phone, receiving a two-and-a-half-year term.
- Brother Anthony Douglas called the decades-long detention 'torture'.
- He said Leroy lost his daughter, cousin and parents.