He said the Parole Board had found that Hindawi had shown insight into his offending behaviour and remorse for all his intended victims, in particular his fiancee and her daughter.

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He was chairman of Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007 and has said he feels "nothing but remorse" for his role in the bank's difficulties during the financial crisis.

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Mr Morgan said that in his probation report, which he described as being "saturated with remorse", Uddin accepted what he had done, indicating that he had "lost all self control at the time".

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While he held no remorse, his writing indicates that he didn't think people in general cared for each other at all.

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The officer noticed in his interview with the older boy that he "did not display any emotion or remorse during the interview, " court papers said.

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Robin Boag, defending, said his client was full of remorse, had acted out of panic, and shot himself in the foot.

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Lancashire Police said Fitzpatrick, who denied murdering Mr Guilfoyle during his trial, has now admitted his guilt, expressed remorse to two police officers and said he had buried the body in a shallow grave in the wood.

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"I began to weep telling her 'I am so sorry for the things I did in the past, ' " Garrido wrote about his wife, adding that he experienced a feeling of remorse he never had before.

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His government, like its predecessors, endorses apologies, first formulated in the mid-1990s, expressing guilt and remorse for wartime suffering.

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