The Monster of Worcester: David McGreavy

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Speaking to the Mirror , the children’s furious mum Elsie Urry said: “I was told he’d never go free. Though he struggled to hold down a job and was regarded as a cocky young man who liked to drink, David appeared to show a better side at the Ralphs' home in Worcester. Most of his sentence has been served with him under protection, as he has been subject to abuse from other prisoners. All she has told me is that he’s been released, he’s got a tag and he’s got to obey by certain rules that they’ve given him,” she added.

And residents in a Somerset village now feel they have reason for fresh horror - as they fear the man responsible could be released into their peaceful community. As Mcgreavy had offered no plea, no motive and no claim of diminished responsibility, the trial lasted just eight scant minutes. When Clive and Elsie arrived home, they were calmly speaking to one another, and didn’t look like they had just murdered their children.The family needed more money, so when Samantha was seven months old Elsie got a job as a barmaid at The Punch Bowl Tavern. His father worked as a sergeant in the army which meant that his family frequently moved to different countries. Whilst on watch, he broke into an officers ward room and started a fire in a waste paper bin, then raised the alarm, claiming he was not responsible, but a sole eye witness. McGreavy then impaled their bodies on the spiked garden railings of a house in Gillam Street, Rainbow Hill. The MP said he will raising the case with the Ministry of Justice, which has announced they will be carrying out a Serious Further Offence review to establish the full facts of the case.

David’s mother didn’t believe it though, she was convinced Mary was a hypochondriac, and exaggerating her illness. Yesterday, on 11 June 2019, it was reported that McGreavy, named 'Monster of Worcester' had been released from prison. Due to the brutality of the crime, McGreavy became known as the "Monster of Worcester" and was the subject of substantial press coverage at the time of the crime.

Last night, a relative of his victims blasted the possibility of him ever walking the streets again. Local gossip had spread like wildfire, and the public gallery of the court was packed, unusually for the time with a predominantly female audience. However, he was told that he would have to remain in closed conditions, but would not be named to protect him from the very real likelihood of attack. The Mcgreavy family were a forces family, and often moved around depending on where Thomas, a Sergeant serving in the Royal Signals, was posted to.

His legal team challenged the then Secretary of State’s refusal to recommend their client be transferred to open prison. If justice is denied and he gets out I hope karma is only one bullet away from shooting him in the b***s so he can die a slow and painful death!But at other times, Mcgreavy is said to have revelled in his notoriety, even reportedly once challenging Moors Murderer Ian Brady to a fight to prove which of them was the most notorious killer in Britain. 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. But his transfer to Leyhill Prison in South Gloucestershire broke down after press reports meant prisoners learnt of his past crimes. The source said: "They tried to release him into a bail hostel in an open prison and that didn't work because people found out about him.

After the murders he then mutilated their tiny bodies with a pickaxe and impaled them on a neighbour's fence. This happened in 1973 when Elsie and Clive Ralph left David McGreavy to care for their three young children. Despite his father’s concerns after joining the navy, like many other men, David changed very quickly.Locals remember him as being a man who loved children and was always playing with them, and acting in the concerned father figure role. At the time McGreavy moved in, Elsie was pregnant with the Ralphs' third child, Samantha Jane, who was born on 14 July 1972. When the Ralphs arrived at their home, the police were already there and escorted them to the police station, where they were told of their children's murder. The scene descended even further into depravity, when McGreavy retrieved a pickaxe from the basement and used it to mutilate the childrens' bodies.