Was dead so I didn’t think about him. I’d to suffer

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airing on national TV, David’s mum Sheila, of Roker, Sunderland, whose son was killed in February, 1994, has opened up on her decades of torment.

“It’s coming up to 25 years since it happened and David would have been 40 on October 31,” she said. “We used to always laugh that he came with the witches on Halloween. It’s unbelievable what we have missed over the years.

“My daughter Joanne is now 47 and she has grown up without her brother. Joanne has an 18-yearold daughter and she has never known her uncle.

“It never gets easier, you just learn to live with it, it just becomes your life. It will never get easier.

“We still live in the same house where we lived when David was alive. We can’t move because we have all his memories here. I still have his bed and his wardrobe in his room, I still have his school uniform.”

Grieveson’s victims were Thomas Kelly, 18, David Hanson and David Grieff, both 15.

The teenagers’ burnt bodies were found in allotment sheds and an abandoned flat between November 1993 and February 1994. Grieveson, who is now 47, was calculated: he would strangle his victims in such a way that there would be no signs of injury before burning the bodies.

At first, the lack of evidence confused detectives and they initially believed the deaths were linked to teenage experiments with solvents that had gone e tragically wrong.

Although Grieveson was s interviewed after the teenagers’ ’ charred remains were found, it t took seven months for a comprehensive investigation to be e launched linking the three e deaths to one killer.

The prosecution’s theory was that Grieveson was a repressed homosexual who, unable to accept his own nature, turned to violence to cover it up.

He was given three life sentences with a minimum tariff of 35 years in prison.

Although he claimed to be innocent throughout the trial, Grieveson finally admitted to the crimes in 2004.

But an even worse admission would soon follow.

In 2013, Grieveson confessed to yet another murder, committed 23 years earlier. Another young boy, 14-yearold Simon Martin.

His body was found in a derelict building at Gillside House in Roker, Sunderland, on May 26 1990. Sheila and husband John, 71, say they will be haunted by Grieveson while is still alive.

Sheila added: “As taxpayers we are paying thousands and thousands of pounds to have Grieveson in jail.

“We have heard that he has been institutionalised and he wouldn’t know what to do on the outside. But he can’t get out real- Simon Martin was just 14 when he died at the hands of evil Steven Grieveson in 1990, a crime he only confessed to in 2013 ly, he did four murders. He played games with the police, they questioned him on every murder but they didn’t pick up on it.

“He’s worse than evil, I haven’t got a word to describe him. I wish he was dead so I don’t have to think about him. I wouldn’t like him to die in his sleep, I want him to suffer.”

The documentary also examines the tragic death of Dean Pike, who was killed as he slept by bun- Grieveson’s victims, from left, Thomas Kelly, David Hanson and David Grieff gling arsonists.

The innocent 11-year-old, of Hendon, Sunderland, was sound asleep when a fire began to tear through his house in June 2005.

The two arsonists, Terry Majinusz and Neil English, had planned an arson attack as part of an escalating family feud but they got the wrong house.

The fire ripped through Dean’s home on Mordey Close and he was tragically killed.