Sky News
1:15pm UK, Wednesday February 23, 2011
Jon di Paolo, Sky News Online
A 35-year-old inmate has been arrested on suspicion of murdering child killer Colin Hatch at a maximum-security prison.
The 38-year-old was jailed for life after being convicted of killing a seven-year-old boy while on parole for a previous child sex attack.
A Humberside Police spokesman said: "Officers from Humberside Police are currently investigating a prisoner death at Full Sutton Prison.
"A 38-year-old male prisoner died in the incident. A 35-year-old male prisoner has been arrested on suspicion of murder."
Unemployed Hatch, then 21, had smirked when he heard the jury's verdict.
Just over two years earlier, he was jailed for three years for assaulting a boy of eight - and his lawyer warned he could kill when he was released.
Within 11 weeks of being paroled in April 1993, he abducted, sexually assaulted and then choked to death Sean Williams after luring him to his tower block home in Norfolk Close, Finchley, north London.
A postman discovered the youngster's body taped up in bin liners and dumped in a lift.
His conviction prompted a review of parole and probation for those convicted of sex crimes, with Sean's mother and father, Lynn and John Williams, saying others had to take some of the blame for their son's death.
Speaking at the time, Mrs Williams said: "Never again must a child be murdered by a pervert.
"Never again must a family have to suffer this experience and never again must Colin Hatch be released back into our community."
The two-week trial heard fantasies "involving abduction, sexual abuse and the killing of young children" written by Hatch were found in a wardrobe in his mother's bedroom after his arrest.
Hatch had a string of previous convictions from the age of 15 for attacks on six young boys.
At his previous trial for indecently assaulting the eight-year-old boy and choking him until he lost consciousness, psychiatrist Dr Anthony Wilkins recommended that Hatch was a "menace to the public" and should be sent to Broadmoor top security hospital.
But Broadmoor had not considered Hatch dangerous enough at the time, Dr Wilkins said.
Instead he was jailed for three years, as the judge was given no alternative.
Source: Sky News 23/02/11
1:15pm UK, Wednesday February 23, 2011
Jon di Paolo, Sky News Online
A 35-year-old inmate has been arrested on suspicion of murdering child killer Colin Hatch at a maximum-security prison.
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| Child killer Colin Hatch |
Hatch died following an incident at Full Sutton jail near York on Tuesday.
The 38-year-old was jailed for life after being convicted of killing a seven-year-old boy while on parole for a previous child sex attack.
A Humberside Police spokesman said: "Officers from Humberside Police are currently investigating a prisoner death at Full Sutton Prison.
"A 38-year-old male prisoner died in the incident. A 35-year-old male prisoner has been arrested on suspicion of murder."
"Never again must a family have to suffer this experience and never again must Colin Hatch be released back into our community."
Victim's mother Lynn Williams after Hatch was jailedJailing Hatch in January 1994, Judge Nina Lowry said he was "highly dangerous" and told him it was not possible to envisage a time when he could be released safely.
Unemployed Hatch, then 21, had smirked when he heard the jury's verdict.
Just over two years earlier, he was jailed for three years for assaulting a boy of eight - and his lawyer warned he could kill when he was released.
Within 11 weeks of being paroled in April 1993, he abducted, sexually assaulted and then choked to death Sean Williams after luring him to his tower block home in Norfolk Close, Finchley, north London.
A postman discovered the youngster's body taped up in bin liners and dumped in a lift.
His conviction prompted a review of parole and probation for those convicted of sex crimes, with Sean's mother and father, Lynn and John Williams, saying others had to take some of the blame for their son's death.
Speaking at the time, Mrs Williams said: "Never again must a child be murdered by a pervert.
"Never again must a family have to suffer this experience and never again must Colin Hatch be released back into our community."
The two-week trial heard fantasies "involving abduction, sexual abuse and the killing of young children" written by Hatch were found in a wardrobe in his mother's bedroom after his arrest.
Hatch had a string of previous convictions from the age of 15 for attacks on six young boys.
At his previous trial for indecently assaulting the eight-year-old boy and choking him until he lost consciousness, psychiatrist Dr Anthony Wilkins recommended that Hatch was a "menace to the public" and should be sent to Broadmoor top security hospital.
But Broadmoor had not considered Hatch dangerous enough at the time, Dr Wilkins said.
Instead he was jailed for three years, as the judge was given no alternative.
Source: Sky News 23/02/11
1 comment:
Is the arrested man a murderer? Many would calll him an unoffical executioner. The Justice system completely failed the children that suffered under Colin Hatch. I don't condone murder but many could biew this as a wrong put right.
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