Child killer in unescorted trips

A triple child killer has been allowed out of jail on unescorted trips, it has been reported.

David McGreavy killed siblings Paul, four, Dawn, two, and Samantha, nine months, before impaling them on a railing while babysitting at their Worcester home more than three decades ago, it was said.

During the past six weeks, the 54-year-old has been on visits to Liverpool from Ford Prison in Arundel, West Sussex, according to the Sun.

A Home Office spokeswoman confirmed that McGreavy was jailed for life in 1973 but said she could not discuss the case further.

She said it was "normal" for life sentence prisoners to be allowed out temporarily before their release.

She added: "All prisoners will be fully risk-assessed before being moved to an open prison or being allowed out of prison on a temporary licence. It's a tightly managed process.

"(It) happens as part of our commitment to rehabilitate prisoners, to help them reintegrate into society and also to test them."

A spokesman for the dead babies' mother, Dorothy Urry, said she did not wish to comment.

Mrs Urry told the Sun: "I cannot believe it. This man took three children's lives. He should have got the electric chair.

"I wouldn't trust him near any kids. It's just not safe."