In April 1973, David McGreavy murdered an eight month old baby because she wouldn't stop crying. Then he killed her two siblings, mutilated all three bodies, and impaled them on the railings outside their house. Did any man better warrant the title of monster?
Presenter Fred Dineage talks to the still grieving mother of McGreavy's young victims, and there are attempts to understand if not explain the mentality of a man who could commit such an unthinkable crime not once but in triplicate, and that on the children of a man who had shown him nothing but kindness, inviting him into his home after McGreavy's own parents had thrown him out. By the way, the murders were committed on Friday 13th, a full seven years before the first of that slightly comic franchise.
In 2006, McGreavy was around 56 – not 44 as a slip of the tongue indicates here. At this time, he was in an open prison and had even been allowed out on day release. Fortunately, someone leaked this information to the press, and after he was photographed walking the streets of Liverpool, he was returned to a Category C prison. There followed a battle to keep his identity secret, a battle which he lost and the press – meaning in this case the public – won.
McGreavy is currently still behind bars where he belongs, anonymity or otherwise.
Presenter Fred Dineage talks to the still grieving mother of McGreavy's young victims, and there are attempts to understand if not explain the mentality of a man who could commit such an unthinkable crime not once but in triplicate, and that on the children of a man who had shown him nothing but kindness, inviting him into his home after McGreavy's own parents had thrown him out. By the way, the murders were committed on Friday 13th, a full seven years before the first of that slightly comic franchise.
In 2006, McGreavy was around 56 – not 44 as a slip of the tongue indicates here. At this time, he was in an open prison and had even been allowed out on day release. Fortunately, someone leaked this information to the press, and after he was photographed walking the streets of Liverpool, he was returned to a Category C prison. There followed a battle to keep his identity secret, a battle which he lost and the press – meaning in this case the public – won.
McGreavy is currently still behind bars where he belongs, anonymity or otherwise.
