Erik Menendez will not be released, the California Parole board decided in a highly anticipated and lengthy hearing Thursday, curtailing for now the contentious push by he and his older sibling to be freed after the 1989 killing of their parents in their Beverly Hills home.

Erik Menendez was denied parole by a California board on Thursday that said his continued misbehaviour during decades in prison for murdering his parents with his older brother in 1989 showed he is still a risk to public safety.