Van Houten, who is in her 70s, has been in prison for 53 years. She was sentenced to life for helping Charles Manson kill Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in Los Angeles in 1969. Parole Five times since 2015, a parole board has recommended that Van Houten be released. Nevertheless, California Governor Gavin Newson and his predecessor Jerry Brown have rejected the encouragement. Now Newson has turned, which means that Van Houten is seen free. In May, an appeals court concluded that Leslie Van Houten’s strong remorse, efforts to rehabilitate, realistic future plans, support from family and good behavior indicate that she should be able to be set free. Photo: AP Van Houtens’ lawyer, Nancy Tetreault, says her client left the women’s prison in California early Tuesday morning. She will probably be on probation for three years. In the sixties, instructed followers Charles Manson led a cult with so-called “flower children” with whom he surrounded himself. Many were young women. The cult-like group was called the “Manson family” and was behind at least nine murders in the Los Angeles area in 1969. Among other things, they were behind the murder of film score player Sharon Tate, who was the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski. Van Houten herself was only 19 years old when she and three others broke into the house of the married couple Leno and Rosemary Labianca in Los Angeles in 1969. The cult leader is said to have tied up the married couple before sending in the cult members to carry out the murder itself. Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten on to the courtroom in 1970. All three have the symbol X on their foreheads, which is the hallmark of the Manson followers. Photo: AP Was sentenced to life Charles Manson was first sentenced to death, but was then sentenced to nine life sentences for the murder when the death penalty was abolished in the state. He died in prison in 2017. Charles Manson on his way to the courtroom on 4 December 1969. Photo: Ap Manson’s aim was to start a race war which he named “Helter Skelter”, a name he took from a Beatles song of the same name. Prosecutors claimed he hoped black Americans would be blamed for the killings in the Los Angeles area to increase racial tension. He is also said to have persuaded his followers that he was the reincarnation of Jesus. New value During his stay in prison, Van Houten took both an education and worked as a corrections officer for other inmates along the way. For the next six months, he will live in an institution for former inmates. There she will learn to navigate a completely different world than the one she left over 50 years ago, according to her lawyer. – She must learn to use the internet. She must learn to pay without cash. It is a completely different value than when she entered, says Nancy Tetreault to the news agency AP.
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