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train. And he is thought to have battered shopkeeper Frank Goodman to death in Finsbury Park, North London, in 1974. Mr Lucas, 35, of Southend-on-sea, Essex, said: “I would be shocked if he didn’t commit at least some of them. There were things he did at his crime scenes which were so idiosyncra­tic, like with Father Crean.”

Mr Lucas, along with MPS, believes the Parole Board and the police should satisfy themselves as to whether Mackay committed co those cr crimes before he is freed.

But the th Ministry of Justice Justic has said it can con consider only the killin killings he was charged fo for.

“If y yo ou’re a prisoner yo you would hope you are only going g to be

judged on what you have been convicted for,” Mr Lucas said. “However, we’re not talking about a burglar, this is someone who is suspected of being the country’s most prolific living serial killer.

“I think the Parole Board needs to consider the rest of the evidence as far as they possibly can. The police need to satisfy themselves that he definitely didn’t kill those people because that is a lot of unsolved murders.

“If it’s not him then over the next 40 years you would expect at least some of them to have been solved. I think the victims and the family members deserve some kind of justice.”

After the murder of Mary Hynes, 73, in Kentish Town, North London, in 1973, the monster gave an exact DEPRAVED Mackay was convicted of the killings of Adele Price, Isabella Griffiths and Father

Anthony Crean.

Widow

Adele, 89, was strangled at her home in

Lowndes

Square, South

West London, on March 10,

1975.

Fr Crean, 63, was attacked on March 21 the same year.

He was hacked to death with an axe at his home near

Gravesend,

Kent.

And Isabella,

87, was strangled and stabbed at her home in

Belgravia on

Valentine’s Day in 1974.

But Mackay also admitted eight more killings before retracting his confession­s – and they are still unsolved.

Suspected victims include

Heidi Mnilk.

The 18-year-old

German nanny was stabbed on a train. Her body thrown on to the tracks and found on July 8, 1973.

Mary Hynes was found dead on July 20, 1973, battered to

descriptio­n of the crime scene plus how she had been battered to death and had a stocking down her throat. But his lawyer told police he was going to deny the charge at court t and the case was left on file.

Mr Lucas says prison on insiders have described d Mackay as now being “quiet and softly spoken, a model prisoner”.

But in the 90s, he spent t time at Hull Prison, where re a special unit was set up for ten of the country’s most dangerous and difficult prisoners.

Mackay was caged with Charles Bronson, Britain’s most notorious lag, who would reportedly beat the serial death with a piece of wood and with a stocking stuffed into her mouth.

The case was left to lie on file.

Stephanie Britton, 57, and her fouryear-old grandson Christophe­r Martin were stabbed to death at home in North London on January 12, 1974.

Mackay admitted he threw a tramp into the Thames in January 1974 but a victim could not be identified.

Frank Goodman, 62, was battered in his shop in Finsbury

Park on June 13, 1974. The case was left to lie on file.

Sarah Rodmell, 92, was battered around the head outside her home in Hackney in December 1974. And Ivy Davies, 48, was battered at home in Southend, Essex, on February 4, 1975.

killer up in the showers. In Mr Lucas’s book, Bronson says: “Some days we would get lucky and catch him in the shower. He n never once fought back. He just screamed like a little girl, rolling rollin into a ball on the floor.

“Up against an 80-yearold o woman he was Tarzan, oh yes, a big, brave f****r. Facing a man, he was w a p***y.”

Scotland Yard said: “All “A unsolved murder cases ca remain open investigat­ions gatio and are subject to periodic review. Action will be taken in relation to any new informatio­n, no matter how much time has passed.”

 ??  ?? GRUESOME END: Father Anthony Crean was killed with an axe
HORROR: Isabella was 87
BEAST: As child with family and, right, after arrest aged 23
STRANGLED: Adele, 89
ATTACKED: Stephanie, 57
STABBED: Christophe­r, 4
TRAIN RIDDLE: Heidi, 18
GRUESOME END: Father Anthony Crean was killed with an axe HORROR: Isabella was 87 BEAST: As child with family and, right, after arrest aged 23 STRANGLED: Adele, 89 ATTACKED: Stephanie, 57 STABBED: Christophe­r, 4 TRAIN RIDDLE: Heidi, 18

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