No it was a customer and to answer your question it is possible to hold a licence with a criminal conviction and even having been in prison depending on what the crime was. So it is wrong for a probation officer to say otherwise, if that is what you are saying not sure that a life sentence...
I did a relief at a pub in Croydon some years ago and was told by customers and the man himself that he had served 2 life sentences 1 in Barlinnie and 1 in Dartmoor having been released from the first he committed a similar crime and received a 2nd. He was in his 60s and was on licence for...
I believe that life should mean that they are not considered for release until they reach 80 years of age irrespective of the age at conviction. A great 80th birthdays present.
Obviously I dont know having never had dealings with these people but I would have thought that they would have just adjusted their minds to the fact of having a new way of life and it becoming the norm and accepted it as such