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'I WANT FREED BEAST DEAD'

Monster of Worcester’s victims’ mum hopes his throat is slashed as he’s released from prison

THE mum of three children murdered and impaled on railings says she hopes someone cuts the throat of their freed killer.

Elsie Urry said she was informed out of the blue in a phone call that David McGreavy had been released after 46 years.

 Parole Board members believed triple child killer David McGreavy is no longer a 'significant risk' and his victims' mum says he's been released today
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Parole Board members believed triple child killer David McGreavy is no longer a 'significant risk' and his victims' mum says he's been released todayCredit: Mercury Press Agency
 Mum's Elsie Urry's three children were brutally murdered by babysitter McGreavy
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Mum's Elsie Urry's three children were brutally murdered by babysitter McGreavyCredit: Solent News

Elsie, now 68, said: “He was always being protected from getting the real justice he deserves — which is death. Now, I pray someone, somewhere, recognises him, gets to him and cuts his throat.”

The nursing home worker campaigned for decades to keep the man dubbed the Beast of Worcester behind bars for life.

But the Parole Board ruled McGreavy, now 67, no longer posed “a significant threat” to the public.

In 1973, ex-sailor McGreavy was lodging with Elsie and her husband Clive in Worcester when they left him to babysit their children. But he killed Paul, four, Dawn, two, and nine-month-old Samantha in a drunken frenzy before impaling their bodies on garden railings.

He was jailed for life but Elsie, from Andover, Hants, was assured she would get notice if he was released.

Instead, he was already out when she took a call at work at 8am.

She said: “It was the news I had been dreading for nearly 50 years. I went to pieces. The sky fell in.”

 Mum Elsie Urry, 68, said she feels 'betrayed' by the decision to release monster McGreavy
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Mum Elsie Urry, 68, said she feels 'betrayed' by the decision to release monster McGreavyCredit: Simon Jones - The Sun
 McGreavy mutilated the three children before impaling their bodies on a neighbour's fence
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McGreavy mutilated the three children before impaling their bodies on a neighbour's fenceCredit: Collect
 Elsie's plea to Parole Board chiefs to not release her children's killer was ignored
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Elsie's plea to Parole Board chiefs to not release her children's killer was ignoredCredit: Simon Jones - The Sun
Dorothy Urry, Mum of children killed by Monster of Worcester David McGreavy, slams parole board over release