TRIPLE MURDERER RELEASED FROM PRISON  

                                                

      

The 'Monster of Worcester' who murdered three children before impaling their mutilated bodies on a fence outside their home has been released from prison.

      The monster is David McGreavy, 67, who murdered Paul Ralph, age four, and his sisters Dawn, ages two, and nine-month-old Samantha at their home in Worcester in 1973.

      McGreavy was a family friend and lodger at the family's home in Rainbow Hill, claimed that he killed the children because one of them would not stop crying. Paul had been strangled, Dawn was found with her throat cut, and Samantha died from a compound fracture to her skull.  This monster then  impaled them on the iron fence surrounding their home.

      McGreavy, then aged 21, had been babysitting the children while Ms, Urry then known as Dorothy Ralph went to work in a pub, while her then husband had been out. McGreavy was subsequently jailed for life in 1973.

      Their mother (now aged 68) had been able to put forward suggestions on his conditions upon release, with the exclusion zones imposed on him extended after her input.

      Ms. Urry also known as Dorothy, told BBC Hereford and Worcester— “It gives me a bit of peace of mind but it is still not fair that he has been released after what he has done. There's other prisoners that haven't done half as bad as what he did to my children and they haven't been put up for parole, so what has made him be able to get parole” Unquote

      Ms. Urry, who now lives in Hampshire, added: “They said he was going to prison for life and then they changed it for (at least) 40 years, but he hasn't done 60 years. He took three lives, not just one or two or even  three,  he's took my life also.”  Unquote

      She has previously admitted that she 'wanted him dead', and believes the murders McGreavy committed were 'every bit as bad as what the Moors Murderers did to their victims'. They were not released from prison after being sentenced to life in prison.

      Robin Walker, the Conservative MP for Worcester, has repeatedly written to successive justice ministers and home secretaries objecting to McGreavy's release.  Those ministers ignored his pleas.

      He said, “Frankly, I don't think someone who carried out such crimes should ever be let out. It is a great shame. I understand there are strict curfew and tag conditions and he is banned from Worcester, and the area in Andover where Ms.  Urry lives.” Unquote

     

Ms. Urry received a phone call while she was working at a nursing home at 8.15 am on June 10^th 2019 from her Victim Support worker to say that McGreavy had been freed. Visibly shaking as she spoke at her home in Andover. Ms. Urry said, “'I am so angry and upset. I feel terrible. I feel like killing him if I got hold of him.  He should never have been released. I want people to know that he is walking about. I was at work when I had the phone call.  It was on my mobile.  The Victim Support person rang to tell me they had released him. They did not tell me where he is staying. All I know is that he is on parole.” Unquote

    

As she spoke, her partner of 18 years, Robert, left the house to go on a walk to 'get some air as he is so upset.”  Unquote

      The members of that particular parole board certainly do not live in the human world because they do not have human feelings or considerations for people in Ms. Urry situation. 

      Back in the early 1970s while I was undertaking a five-year program on criminology at the University of Toronto, I studied Abnormal Psychology for nine months. Later I spent a year conducting individual and group counselling in a prison facility. This doesn’t make me an authority on abnormal psychology but I do know something of that form of mental illness.

      Mental disorders represent only a small fraction of people diagnosed and the majority of the people afflicted with mental illness do not engage in criminal activity, especially if they are given proper treatment and social support.

      There’s no evidence that all mentally ill people constitute a “high risk” population with respect to interpersonal violence, including firearm and knife -related violence.

      In the wake of a violent assault, robbery, or murder, forensic psychologists typically examine the mental correlates of criminality. In order to get to the root of a behavior, these justice system professionals will often ask such questions have a troubled childhood? Does he or she exhibit empathy for others? Does he or she self-medicate with drugs or alcohol? Not surprisingly, many criminals have been diagnosed with mental illnesses and may be suffering from co-occurring substance abuse. So what are some of the most common psychological disorders associated with history’s most infamous American criminals—serial killers and terrorists in particular?

      Symptoms range from hallucination and delusions to emotional flatness. It is one of the most common mental disorders diagnosed among criminals, especially serial killers and mass killers. The majority of all mass killers likely suffered from a serious mental illness prior to their attacks. Often the symptoms of fpossible violence is not recognized by people close to them. However, if their acquaintance doesn’t have empathy towards other people, that is evidence of that person is a psychopath. Keep in mind however, that the vast majority of psychopaths do not murder people.

      One of the mentally ill inmates I dealt with as a group counsellor had previously knifed a woman to death by stabbing her in her back while she was asleep. She had let him spend the night in her apartment because she felt sorry for the homeless man. He told me that he didn’t care that she was dead. The fact that he didn’t care that she was dead is clear evidence that he was a psychopath. Being a psychopath doesn’t mean that he didn’t know what he was doing. He knew what he was doing. He was later was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

      While most mentally ill individuals are not and never will become violent however, there are certain types of serious mental illness—especially when untreated, they are associated with a higher prevalence of firearm and knife related forms of violence.

      When one of these horrible crimes occurs, people will say, “Anyone who would do such a thing must be mentally ill.” Even in such cases in which adults with a serious mental illness do become violent, it’s difficult to peg their crimes solely on their diagnosis of being mentally ill. Confounding variables such as a history of childhood abuse or use of alcohol or their inability to control their temper may play a role in their reasons for physically assaulting and even murdering babies and/or small children.

      The question that must be on everyone’s mind is, will he kill someone else sometime in the future? His parole board didn’t think he would.

      Many years ago in the Canadian province of Quebec, there was a man sentenced to life in prison for raping and murdering three small boys. The parole board later released him. He then raped and murdered another three small boys. Again he was sentenced to prison for life. He should have been executed. Actually, he was executed. The inmates killed him.

     

A court in Florida sentenced John Rae to life in prison for the murder of an 8-year-old boy. This murderous pedophile was paroled in 1971. He was later convicted in Michigan of another murder of a boy in 1998.  How many other boys did he kill whose bodies were never found?

      John Miller in California killed an infant in 1957. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison the following year.  He was paroled in 1975. That same year, he killed his parents. He was then sentence to prison for life.  

      In 1957, at the age of 15, McRae left a family dinner, broke into a nearby home, and beat a 22-month-old girl, Laura Wetzel, to death.  Why? He reported that he “wanted to know how it would feel to kill someone.” Sentenced to life in prison, he was paroled after 17 years by the state of California in 1975 .In just two months later, he shot his parents.  His mother died but his father survived. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He is currently over seventy years of age while still in prison.

      Here is the story of another person named McRae. His first name was John. He was a serial killer with a sexual preference for little boys. He was only 16 years old when he slashed the throat and genitals of 8-year-old Joey Housey in 1950. Convicted of 1^st degree murder, he was sentenced to life in prison. William Milliken, governor of Michigan, commuted his sentence in 1972 and this killer was paroled.  During the next several years, he tortured and murdered four more boys before being convicted and sentenced to life in 1998. He died in prison in 2005.

      In 1968, an 18-year-old Jimmy Lee Gray strangled and cut the throat of his sixteen year-old girlfriend. He was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in Arizona, He was granted parole. He stayed under the radar for a few years, but it turned out his twisted killer instinct was never far below the surface so in 1976 he kidnapped, sodomized, and murdered three-year-old Deressa Jean Seales in Mississippi. He was convicted and sentenced to death. He became the first person executed in Mississippi after the death penalty was reinstated.

      
It is worth noting that his execution on September 2^nd, 1983, was considered one of the most gruesome and botched executions n U.S. history. His executioner was drunk .He made a few mistakes Either his head was yanked off or he slowly strangled to death however it’s unlikely that many people cared.

      In Mexico, if a prisoner escapes from prison because of the carelessness of a guard, then that guard has to serve the prisoner’s sentence until the prisoner is found and returned to the prison.  Perhaps if the members of a three-member parole panel voted to release the prisoner, they too should serve that prisoner’s term of imprisonment if the killer murders someone until he is found and released back in prison.  OK perhaps that is too harsh but those who voted for the prisoner’s release and the prisoner killed someone while he or she was set free, the parole Board members who voted for his or her release should at least be fired.