A gangster who caused a nationwide outrage by gouging out his lover's eyes has failed in his plea to be released from prison.
Sadistic Shane Jenkin, aged 42, has been warned by the Parole Board that he must remain in prison for at least another two years.
Jenkin, who has previously been rejected parole five times, has been denied again in an application for release on license.
After hearing evidence from his psychologist, a nurse, and victim Tina Nash, the court decided he was still too dangerous to be released.
The mother-of-two, who was permanently blinded on April 20, 2011, delivered a victim impact statement.
Jenkin received a life sentence in 2012 after permanently blinding his girlfriend at her home in Hayle, Cornwall.
The night before the attack, he had watched a DVD depicting eye gouging, according to Truro Crown Court.
Tina suffered horrific injuries in the 'premeditated, sustained and vicious attack'.
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A spokesperson for the Parole Board said: 'We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board refused the release of Shane Jenkins following an oral hearing at the end of May this year.
'Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.
'A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims.
'Members read and digest hundreds of pages of evidence and reports in the lead up to an oral hearing.
'Evidence from witnesses such as probation officers, psychiatrists and psychologists, officials supervising the offender in prison as well as victim personal statements may be given at the hearing.
'It is standard for the prisoner and witnesses to be questioned at length during the hearing which often lasts a full day or more.
'Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority.
'Under current legislation he will be eligible for a further review in due course. The date of the next review will be set by the Ministry of Justice.'
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Jenkin was informed of the decision following the parole hearing in May. It was his fifth parole appeal that had been denied.
He is currently being held in a maximum security prison and has previously been in a psychiatric unit.
The Parole Board stated in a written summary of its decision: 'He had spent recent years in a regime designed and supported by psychologists to help people recognise and deal with their problems.'
'There were plans for him to move to a different regime which was also designed to help people recognise and deal with a wide range of complex problems.
'The psychologist had completed an assessment on Mr Jenkin and presented the findings to the panel.
'The psychologist, Mr Jenkin’s probation officer in the community and the official supervising his case in custody all recommended that he remain in prison.
'None of them supported transfer to open conditions.'
It concluded: 'The panel considered that Mr Jenkin was appropriately located in custody where outstanding levels of risk could be addressed.'
Jenkins tortured his ex-lover for 12 hours, breaking her jaw, choking her until she passed out, and blinding her by gouging out her eyes.
Jenkin assaulted Miss Nash while she slept at her home, according to Truro Crown Court in May 2012.
Despite several operations over four weeks in the hospital, surgeons could not save her eyes.
Miss Nash, then 32, told the court she was heartbroken because she would never see her two sons again.
She compared losing her sight to being buried alive.
Jenkin had watched a horror film with Miss Nash the night before the heinous attack, in which a woman had her eyes gouged out.
Describing the assault, Judge Christopher Clarke said that Jenkin 'repeatedly held her tightly around the neck and, as he continued to strangle her, she lost consciousness and from time to time she hallucinated'.
Jenkin had previously assaulted Miss Nash. Tina stated that she believed she could change Jenkin's violent behaviour, but she advised other victims of domestic violence to leave "before it is too late."
Jenkin had also been banned from his Penzance pubs for violence, and three months before he blinded Miss Nash, he was reportedly charged with breach of bail following an assault charge.
The 18-stone brute was sentenced to life in a secure mental health unit and ordered to serve at least six years before release.
He immediately filed an appeal against his sentence, but the Court of Appeal dismissed it.
His lawyers argued that the life sentence should be overturned so that he could be released once his doctors were convinced he had overcome his mental illness.
The judges, however, determined that Jenkin was dangerous with or without a mental illness.
Tina became an advocate for domestic violence after her ordeal with Jenkin.
She wrote a book about the scourge of domestic abuse and pleaded with other victims to seek help and not remain silent.
Her book Out Of The Darkness describes how Jenkin beat her unconscious and poked out her eyes at her home, telling her: 'You're never going to see your kids again.'
The 12-hour attack happened as her sons aged 13 and 3 were sleeping in the same house.
She wrote: 'I sat up and reached my hand to my face... and felt my eyeball hanging halfway down my cheek.
'I touched my slippery eyeball, like I couldn't believe it was real. My other eye was swollen to the size of a tennis ball.'
Tina told other victims: 'It's not going to get better, it's going to get worse.'