Mum’s fury as monster who murdered her 3 kids is freed
‘I feel terrible, I feel like killing him’
A MUM whose three children were murdered by a lodger and impaled on railings is furious after learning he has been freed from prison.
Evil David McGreavy, who once boasted he was more notorious than Moors Murderer Ian Brady, killed Paul Ralph, four, and sisters Dawn, two, and Samantha, nine months, in 1973.
On hearing he was out of jail, the children’s mum Elsie Urry, 68, said yesterday: “I feel like killing him.”
McGreavy was 21 and living in Ms Urry’s family home in Worcester when he carried out the horrific killings.
He strangled Paul and Dawn and fractured Samantha’s skull before slashing their throats with a razor blade.
The killer then mutilated their bodies with a pickaxe and left them impaled on the railings of a neighbour’s fence.
McGreavy later claimed he did it because Samantha was crying for her bottle. He was jailed for life in July 1973 and told he must serve at least 20 years.
While in prison, he challenged Ian Brady to a fight to prove he was the most notorious of the pair. McGreavy, now 67, was cleared for release by a three-person panel last November.
Ms Urry, 68, had repeatedly written to the Parole Board begging them not to release him.
But he is now a free man after a report said he had “changed considerably” after spending nearly 46 years behind bars.
Ms Urry was informed by Victim Support yesterday that he had been freed from HMP
Warren Hill, in Suffolk.
McGreavy is living in a bail hostel and has had restrictions imposed on where he can go.
He is banned from Ms Urry’s home town, which is now in Hampshire.
She said yesterday: “I literally found out this morning. I am fuming about it. I was at work when I heard the news – I got so upset I had to go home.
“I am so angry and upset. I feel terrible. I feel like killing him if I got hold of him.
“He should never have been released. I want people to know he is walking about. They said he was going in for life and then they changed it for [at least] 20 years, but he hasn’t done 60 years.
“He took three lives, not one or two. Three. Also he’s took my life really.”
Ms Urry added: “There are other prisoners who haven’t done things half as bad as what he did to my children – and yet they haven’t been put up for parole.
“If this had have happened to any of those on that parole board would they be thinking of letting the b ***** d out?”
Speaking last year Ms Urry said: “I was told he would never go free. He put my babies on spikes for god’s sake.
“He mutilated them and they died in agony. What this animal did to my children was every bit as bad as what the Moors Murderers did.”
The children’s dad Clive Ralph had left ex-sailor McGreavy to babysit while he went to collect barmaid Elsie from work.
McGreavy brutally attacked baby Samantha in a drunken rage because she was crying, before killing her two siblings as they lay in their beds.
But a document from the Parole Board about the killer’s case released last year said he had changed “considerably”.
It added: “He has developed selfcontrol, as well as a considerable understanding of the problems he has had and what caused them.”
A spokesman said yesterday: “Parole Board decisions are solely focused on whether a prisoner would represent a significant risk to the public.”
He took three lives. He also took my life too ELSIE URRY ON ANGER AT KILLER’S RELEASE