Sunday People

Where are the guards who are supposed to stop these scumbags?

DAUGHTER OF VICTIM ASKS

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white powder on a chest of drawers. Other grinning gangsters stare into the camera as it pans around the room and repeatedly shout: “Hello, son. Lovely jubbly.” But the film brought back terrible memories for Danielle Seccombe. Her dad John, 53, a former Army chef, was battered to death by David Ramshaw and his brother James, now 31, as he walked his dog in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumber­land, in 2005. Mum- of- four Danielle said: “It makes me so angry. “It doesn’t look as though any of them are remorseful for anything they have done.

“It looks as if they are getting free rent, free food, free drink, free accommodat­ion and free fun.

“My dad was a hard-working man. For him to be killed and them to be in there partying is outrageous. Words can’t describe what I feel.”

Guilty

The mum-of-four still does not know the full circumstan­ces that led to her father’s murder.

The Ramshaws denied the killing at first but changed their plea to guilty as they were about to go on trial at Newcastle crown court.

Danielle said: “It looks like they are living it up. What I want to know is where are the guards? They can’t be stupid enough to not know it’s going on.

“With all that music, drugs and alcohol, clearly that whole prison needs to be under investigat­ion.

“Obviously the guards don’t care because it didn’t happen to their dad.

“I can’t understand the justice system in this country. Life should mean life and not living it up like this.

“I know that drugs can get into prison and that alcohol gets made in prison, but it depends on how lenient the prison is.

“It’s down to the searches they do and how much they really care. That prison clearly doesn’t. You would have to be an idiot not to know what was going on in that cell.” Among

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