Sick fantasy of the freed gigolo killer

A FAILED tanning salon tycoon freed after serving two years for murdering his millionaire fiancee has bragged of how he now plans to sail around the world.

Extradited Ian Griffin was dubbed a “lying gigolo” by a French prosecutor in 2014 as he got 20 years for bludgeoning Polish Kinga Legg, 36, to death on a Paris trip.

Her body was found with more than 100 bruises in a bath at the five-star Le Bristol hotel in 2009 after he had fled back to England.

At the time he was seeing ex-Dragons’ Den contestant Tracy Baker with whom he has a son. But French judges controversially decided to free Warrington-born Griffin, 47 – who claims Kinga’s death was an accident – during a closed hearing last year.

Now letters Griffin wrote behind bars to a pen pal, handed to the Sunday Mirror, give an insight into the fantasist’s mind.

He boasts a lie detector test would clear him and says he wants to “get on with my life… I am going to open a clinic on the beach at Cornwall, treating mood disorders (like Kinga had).

“My next adventure is to sail around the world,” he adds, enclosing a snap of one of his boats.

Griffin, whose North West tanning salon empire went bust three years before the murder, also claims he is writing his life story. He says Kinga “called me 007 due to my nature and all the gadgets I had”.

He moans of prison life in France “it’s pretty awful – 99% of the people are sub human”, but adds if he passes a polygraph “all charges are dropped. Period”.

Griffin, who also claims he has worked with the FBI, now lives with Baker, 35, just outside Paris.

VILE SLUR Griffin made remarks about Kinga Legg’s mental health SAIL BOAST Round world plan and his boat, left OFF MY CHEST With his dog Marley in a picture enclosed with letter to pen pal