SERIAL KILLER ST DIE IN JAIL
A SERIAL killer’s best friend says she will never get over his evil crimes.
Kim Kaplan still cannot believe double murderer Allan Grimson – the best man on her wedding day – was capable of killing.
But she now thinks he needs to die behind bars.
Grimson was convicted of killing two men he had met through work in the Royal Navy, and is feared to have up to 20 more victims.
An emotional Kim, 56, said: “Nothing that I ever saw about him would make me think he committed those crimes. It’s almost like we’re talking about somebody else.
“It’s like rapists – rapists should never be back out on the streets again. You can’t fix people like that.
“Sorry, but you can’t. Surely these people don’t get back out into the community, do they?”
Sion Jenkins was 20 and Nicholas Wright 18 when Grimson murdered them on the same date, December 12, a year apart.
Grimson, who is gay, has since chillingly admitted he used his position as a Petty Officer to scour the ranks of trainees and cadets to find the best-looking ones.
He preyed on them so he could dominate and then kill them.
It is feared he could have other, undiscovered victims, among them seaman Simon Parkes, inset, who went missing in 1986.
More than 18 years on from his conviction, Kim still hasn’t contacted Grimson, but is desperate to ask him why he carried out the heinous crimes.
On new true-crime series Murdertown, she said: “I’ve often thought about writing to Allan and what I would say to him, and as many times as I’ve thought about it, all I’ve come up with is, ‘Why?’
“All I can think to say is, ‘Why? Why? What the hell happened for you to end up like this?’ Who knows what he’ll say to me. He might not even write back.”
Kim met Grimson years ago when he was based in Portsmouth, working with her boyfriend in the Navy.
They soon became good friends, and Grimson was best man on her wedding day.
Kim said: “Allan chatted to everybody, especially my mum. My mum thought he was a lovely chap. “I never found him to be a bully, I never found him to show any type of violence. “I can assure you, if you met him like I met him, you’d think, ‘He’s gonna be a fantastic pal.’
“I’ve never got my head around it, how someone can change like that. “I just think, ‘What happened to Allan…the Allan that I know?’ That’s not the Allan I knew.”
Kim, from Leeds, West Yorks, added: “I feel sad – obviously for the people who have been killed and obviously for their parents.
“But I also feel sadness about a man who I knew to be a lovely person turning out like this.”
Grimson, now 61, from North Shields, Tyne and Wear, was convicted of the murders in 2001 and handed a life sentence.
The term was increased to 25 years by the Government, but he later won a reduction of three years.
During sentencing, Judge Peter Creswell said: “You are a serial killer by nature, if not by number.”