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‘Gay slayer’ dies in Yorkshire prison
A KILLER who was told he would never be released from jail after being convicted of torturing gay men to death almost 20 years ago has died in jail.
Colin Ireland, 57, is presumed to have died from natural causes in the healthcare centre of Wakefield Prison yesterday, a Prison Service spokeswoman said.
He was given a whole-life tariff in 1993.
A Prison Service spokeswoman said: “As with all deaths in custody, the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will conduct an investigation.”
One of Britain’s worst serial killers, former soldier Ireland admitted attacking and killing five gay men he met in pubs in 1993.
Known as the “gay slayer”, he reportedly posed as a homosexual to be taken to each of his victims’ homes, where he tortured and murdered them after making a New Year’s resolution in 1993 to become a serial killer. But Ireland, who terrorised London’s gay community, was caught later the same year when CCTV footage showed him with his last victim.
A report by the independent Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Advisory Group found that the Metropolitan Police inquiry was “hampered” by a lack of knowledge of London’s gay scene.
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RAJAL
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 08:21 AMThere are some who consider me Homophobic. But this animal should have had to wake up for his last breakfast. He should have had to walk the walk feel the hood go over his head. Live his last seconds on earth in darkness. Feel the rope go over his head and tighten around his neck. Hear the executioner walk to the lever. Hear him pulling it. Feel the floor open beneath him. Experience hurtling through space. Feel the nooses nack his neck. To say this scumbag was alowed to die peacefully is an insult to civilised society.
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