But when pictures of him out and about on the streets were published in the national press, the public were outraged, and McGreavy was transferred back to prison. After questioning the couple, the police ruled them out as suspects and began thinking of who it could have been. He impaled each one, Samanta, Dawn, and Paul, leaving their lifeless bodies on the fence for all to see.

The Southport 'Friday the 13th killer' had been left in charge of the children by their father Clive Ralph while he went to pick up his wife Elsie - also known as Dorothy - from work. The prison source added McGreavy now "keeps himself to himself" but is able to "live as he pleases". The family needed more money, so when Samantha was seven months old Elsie got a job as a barmaid at The Punch Bowl Tavern. McGreavy’s time in prison has been very much up and down, and that’s hinged on the extent to which his fellow prisoners are aware of the crimes that he’s carried out.And that’s as far as I can really remember properly because there was a doctor there at the time because I went hysterical, which you would, and he gave me an injection, and I don’t really…I never ever went back to the house. David then moved through the house upstairs to the other two sleeping children where he slit two-year-old Dawn’s throat with a bathroom razor and four-year-old Paul was strangled with a curtain wire. Immediately Elsie started to panic, hyperventilating, and a medic on scene gave her an injection to calm her down. Everyone who knew Mcgreavy claimed of his love for children, and there was never any hint of Mcgreavy having committed sexual abuse of children, or a perverted lust for children in his past. McGreavy was jailed for life in 1973 after he battered to death a nine-month-old baby, strangled her four-year-old brother and cut the throat of their sister, two, before impaling them on spikes in the garden in Worcester.

By the time police arrived, it was too late, and there was no way they could have anticipated the scene they were presented with. Since being incarcerated, Mcgreavy has applied for parole on at least nine separate occasions, and each time has been denied. Parole Board decisions are solely focused on whether a prisoner would represent a significant risk to the public after release.

He has spent a large chunk of his prison years living under the protection of Rule 43, which caters for those prisoners deemed vulnerable or those that need protection for their own safety. Announcing the decision of an independent panel at the end of last year, the Parole Board said: “We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board has directed the release of David McGreavy following an oral hearing.

He was well known to the neighbours who said he was so good with the three children, almost like a second father. The dead bodies of the their children were found by police - impaled on the railings outside the family home. This news spread like wildfire, when prisoners heard of this his bed was urinated on and excrement was smeared on his cell walls. This could mean that one year he was being educated in an army school in England, the next, in Germany. Clive has more or less disappeared, not speaking out about the murders, choosing instead to live a private life.Conservative MP for Worcester Robin Walker, who has repeatedly written to successive justice ministers and home secretaries objecting to McGreavy’s release, said: “Frankly, I don’t think someone who carried out such crimes should ever be let out. It was just ten weeks after the brutal murders that the trial of David Mcgreavy began with him entering a guilty plea. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. Finding no answer, the officers tried around the back of the house, and it was there by torchlight that they made the most unimaginable discovery ever.