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A love match made in hell

Jordan McCready is a murderer who stamped teenage victim to death Stephanie Campbell is a convicted firestarte­r who torched 3 pensioners’ flats

- PAUL O’HARE p.ohare@dailyrecor­d.co.uk

A SHAMELESS murderer who boasts about kicking a child to death is enjoying a jail romance with a female ned who burned three pensioners out of their homes.

A photo posted on convicted fire-raiser Stephanie Campbell’s Facebook page shows her in scumbag Jordan McCready’s arms. It was apparently taken in prison.

A source said: “What a couple these two make. They deserve each other.”

The Record can reveal that McCready has been dating student Campbell since April.

The picture shows the pair posing in HMP Shotts, Lanarkshir­e, where McCready is serving at least 14 years.

Campbell herself was jailed in 2013 for endangerin­g the lives of three pensioners when she and a friend torched flats in East Kilbride.

But her brush with the law hasn’t deterred her from striking up a relationsh­ip with one of Scotland’s most notorious killers.

The mum even made a joke about his status after a friend posted a Facebook message saying: “Love is in the air love is all around us xxxxxxxxxx”

Campbell, 20, replied: “At least we know where they are this weekend ahaha xxxx”

The friend said: “Yes locked up for the night in the next 5 mins xxxxx”

Campbell’s Facebook status says she is in a relationsh­ip with Cammy – McCready’s nickname.

In March, we told how McCready boasted about his crime on Facebook. Trying to impress a young woman, he posted a picture of his feet and bragged that they had “done” his victim, innocent schoolboy Jon Wilson.

He also made vile remarks about raping his victim and snorting his ashes, and threatened to rape the woman when she branded him sick.

It is believed McCready used a smuggled phone to put the horrific posts online from his cell.

The serial thug, now 23, was just 17 when he was caged for life with a 14-year minimum term for murdering Jon in Kilmarnock in 2011.

But his posts make it clear he has no remorse.

He targeted a female Facebook user after she accepted a friend request from him by mistake. In a group discussion, McCready urged the woman to look at his photo of his “sexy feet”. He then added that they had “done yer boy” – a reference to victim Jon.

The woman, who is not related to Jon, replied: “Go away.”

McCready then told her: “I’m coming for you.”

When the woman asked why McCready was so sick, he replied: “How’s Jon doing?”

She told him that wasn’t funny and he hit back with the revolting lie that he had raped his victim. McCready later told her: “Am gawny rape you.”

In another exchange with other women, McCready asked who was prepared to “get their t**s oot” for “a line of Jon’s ashes”.

Jon was heading home from a pal’s house in the early hours of September 4, 2011, when he encountere­d McCready.

The thug, who had taken Valium and drunk vodka and Buckfast, had a previous conviction for serious assault. There were no witnesses to his attack on Jon, but McCready later boasted that he had “pounded the life” out of someone and “jumped up and down on a boy’s head”.

The attack was so vicious that McCready had bruises on his feet.

Passers-by found Jon at 2.30am, covered in blood.

McCready violently mugged a man and a youth at knifepoint on the same night before he was finally arrested.

Jon was still alive when the killer

was arrested. McCready screamed at police: “If he gets out of intensive care, I’m going to murder him. I’m only 16. I’ll do two year for attempt murder.”

But Jon had suffered irreversib­le brain damage and died the next day. McCready was caged for life in 2012 at the High Court in Glasgow.

The killer has a history of using illicit phones to brag about his crimes and taunt innocent members of the public. In February, Jon’s cousin Jane Benn revealed that McCready, of Dreghorn, Ayrshire, had been trying to contact the family online. She said he had taunted a woman he wrongly believed to be Jon’s mum, asking her what Jon was getting for his Christmas before telling her: “You do realise I killed your son?”

In March 2013, Campbell was found guilty of torching a flat, endangerin­g the lives of three OAPs.

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard how she gloated on Facebook that she had “caused a riot” at 90 Capelrig Drive, Calderwood, on February 9, 2012. Fiscal depute Barry Dunn said: “This was a deliberate, intentiona­l act which put people in grave danger.

“Elderly, innocent people living there had to be evacuated from their homes in fear.”

A jury took less than half an hour to convict Campbell and an accomplice.

Campbell was later sentenced to 12 months’ detention.

When contacted by the Record, she declined to comment on her relationsh­ip with McCready.

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 ??  ?? SMITTEN Stephanie Beattie and Jordan McCready
SMITTEN Stephanie Beattie and Jordan McCready
 ??  ?? VICTIM Jon Wilson
VICTIM Jon Wilson
 ??  ?? THE CHILD KILLER THE OAP ARSONIST SICK McCready boasted about brutal murder CALLOUS Campbell put pensioners’ lives at risk
THE CHILD KILLER THE OAP ARSONIST SICK McCready boasted about brutal murder CALLOUS Campbell put pensioners’ lives at risk

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