Killer Cregan is ‘too stubborn to say sorry’ claims his sister
Notorious murderer ponders on what age he will be when he dies in prison, reveals relative
POLICE killer Dale Cregan is ‘too stubborn’ to apologise for his shocking crimes and wonders how old he will be when he dies behind bars.
The one-eyed killer will spend the rest of his life behind bars after shooting Greater Manchester Police officers Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, after luring them to a house in Hattersley.
He also killed father and son David and Mark Short in separate incidents in Droylsden.
Cregan was sentenced to a whole life term after admitting four murders in June 2013 with a judge telling him he would die in prison.
But his sister Kelly, 37, told The Sunday People that her brother still refuses to say sorry for his horrendous crimes.
As murderer Cregan spent his 32nd birthday at Ashworth Hospital, mumof-four Kelly told the newspaper: “I do think Dale should apologise to the families of the policewomen – say to them that he is sorry about their daughters. But he won’t do that. He is stubborn and that makes him look evil.
“He knows what he’s done and that he’s inside for life. He says, ‘I wonder how old I will be when I die in here?’”
Kelly , who lives under a new identity, said she is poised to flee the country after GMP warned the family are at possible risk from revenge.
She said: “We don’t know a normal life. Being told by the police they have ‘intel’ that our lives are in danger and we have to move on is making our lives a misery.
“Moving permanently abroad is I feel the best way forward for us. We never feel settled here.
“I’ve had to get on with it as best as I can. But I feel we are still being made to pay and we did not do the crime.”
Kelly – who regularly speaks to Cregan on the phone – told the paper he is a ‘father figure’ to her sons.
She said: “When Dale speaks on the phone to them he tells them to be good and to be the man about the house because he’s not there any more.
“Dale is all about family. He loves his family and we have always been and still remain a close family unit.”
She added: “It was the love for his family that led him to kill those officers because of what the police were doing to us.
“They would not leave us alone, continually harassing us every day for six weeks making out we knew where he was – but we didn’t.” OLDHAM: A woman was taken to hospital after she superglued her hand to a door handle.
Emergency services poured fizzy cola onto the 28-year-old’s fingers to free her, but the technique failed.
Firefighters were instead forced to cut the handle from the door and take the woman to hospital for treatment to remove the metal.
She was taken to hospital, still attached to the handle, and doctors used a solvent to unbond her.