Angel of Death’s food bank
POISONER HELPING TO FEED POOR FAMILIES IN JAIL AREA
A NURSE who murdered four patients with injections has started a food bank from inside prison that has fed struggling families in County Durham.
Colin Norris, who was branded the Angel of Death, is currently locked up in HMP Frankland for murdering four elderly patients with lethal doses of insulin.
He has now set up what he called the FBI (Food Bank Initiative), and has convinced other prisoners to donate items, the Mirror reports.
Norris, 40, has given around 350kg of non-perishable goods, which amounts to 450 meals, since setting up the FBI in December 2017.
Donations include juice boxes and tinned fruits and veg from the prison tuck shop.
Durham Foodbank has confirmed it has received donations from the initiative.
Norris, who changed his name to Colin Campbell in jail, said cons use the project to help with sentence plans, which are vital if they want to be released. Despite his merciless Nurse Colin Norris murdered four elderly patients
crimes, the twisted poisoner says: “I think we can all agree that as a nation we should not even have such things as food banks in the 21st Century in one of the seven richest nations on earth.
“However, the reality is that we do. Unlike other charitable donations – money – at least we can guarantee that 100% of the donation goes to the recipient in need.”
Norris, who was jailed for more than 30 years after killing three pensioners with huge insulin overdoses at two Leeds hospitals, started the food bank in the prison’s A wing. It now includes the B and D wings.
In a letter to prison mag Inside Time he claimed one prisoner at Frankland – home to serial killer Levi Bellfield, Soham monster Ian Huntley and Lee Rigby’s murderer Michael Adebolajo – even donated a £150 cheque and got a thank you note from a food bank charity.
He added: “Some residents have had sentence plans since the introduction of the FBI and had their input and support of the initiative acknowledged.
“Some people’s personal officers have even been adding positive ‘Cnomis’ – Computer National Offender Management Information System – entries for residents’ participation in the rehabilitative culture as part of this.
“This was not part of the original plan. However, it’s encouraging to see some staff are on board too.”
Kelly Smith, food supply manager at Durham Foodbank, confirmed it had received donations.
She said the charity, which has a network of 30 food banks across County Durham, was contacted by Norris in 2017 but did not directly deal with him.
Ms Smith insisted there were strict guidelines so all the food donated is tested to ensure it had not been tampered with. She said: “He wrote to us in 2017 but we were advised to communicate through the warden.
“We sent him out the normal letter, the signage and posters to help him get the message out across the wing of his prison.
“We’ve had four donations from him.
“We’ve never dealt with a prison before. It’s not the sort of place you would have expected to get donations.
“It’s the places you least expect that you get donations from. It’s often those who have had experience of hardships.”
Norris, who was jailed in 2008, insists he was convicted because of flawed evidence.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice declined to comment on Norris’s food bank.