Revenge blitz on jail staff cars & homes
Devil’s Disciple to stay in prison
PRISON guards who break up gangs behind bars are being targeted with attacks on their vehicles and homes.
In the latest incident 22 cars were covered in paint stripper in the staff car park at Buckley Hall jail, Lancs, causing £25,000 damage. And 14 cars belonging to staff at Manchester’s Strangeways jail have been damaged.
A prison nurse at HMP Risley, Cheshire, had a white
BMW firebombed in a case of mistaken identity. The attacks came after prisoners were moved between
THE release of Britain’s longest-serving prisoner dubbed the Devil’s Disciple has been postponed indefinitely as police probe eight more killings linked to him.
Patrick Mackay, 67, has been behind bars for 45 years since his manslaughter convictions at the Old Bailey in 1975 for strangling two elderly women and butchering a priest with an axe.
The Parole Board were due to decide whether Mackay was safe to be let out after his move to an open prison.
Fear
But the Nazi-loving psychopath had originally confessed to eight more victims during a killing spree in London, Kent and Essex in 1974-75.
Now Gareth Johnson, Tory MP for Mackay’s home town of Dartford, Kent, has persuaded Essex police to investigate the cases. Mr Johnson, who was contacted by the son of one of the victims to express his fear the killer may walk the streets again, said: “These other crimes must be fully investigated before he is considered for release.”
Mackay was 23 when he was convicted of the manslaughter due to diminished responsibility of Father Anthony Crean, 63, Isabella Griffiths, 87, Adele Price, 89.
Two of the other eight killings were left on file and Mackay retracted his confession to six.