Lyle Menendez, the older of the notorious brothers who were jailed for murdering their parents in Los Angeles in 1989, has been denied parole.
The brothers, aged 57 and 54, had received life sentences without the chance of parole in 1996 after being convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home.
The case was thrust back into the spotlight last year when Netflix released a documentary and miniseries.
Lyle was making his first appeal for release after a judge reduced both his and his brother’s sentences, making them eligible for parole.
It comes a day after his brother Erik Menendez was also denied parole by a panel of California commissioners.
Reaching the same verdict on Friday, a panel of two commissioners recommended that Lyle not be released for three years, after which he will be eligible to apply for parole again.
The brothers are also waiting for the outcome of a 2023 request for a judge to consider evidence that their father had sexually abused them.
Prosecutors during both the 1993 and 1995 trials argued that the brothers killed their parents for financial gain.
The brothers’ attorneys never denied that the pair killed their parents, but argued that they acted out of self-defence after years of emotional and sexual abuse by their father.
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