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Menendez brothers’ sentence is cut

Self-defence: Erik Menendez (left) and his brother Lyle (right) during a pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles in 1992, having denied killing their wealthy parents.

Should they be set free now? “They are universally forgiven by our family,” say relatives of two brothers who killed their parents more than three decades ago, as a judge ruled that they are now eligible for parole.