Police are investigating the suspected murder of child killer Colin Hatch at one of Britain’s most secure prisons.
Hatch, 38, died following an incident at the maximum-security Full Sutton prison near York on Tuesday.
He was jailed for life in 1994 after being convicted of killing a seven-year-old boy while on parole for a previous child sex attack.
A Prison Service spokesman said: “An incident at HMP Full Sutton on Tuesday February 22 resulted in the death of prisoner Colin Hatch. This is now a matter for the police.”
Humberside Police are investigating.
Jailing Hatch, who had a string of convictions for assaulting young boys, Judge Nina Lowry said he was “highly dangerous” and told him it was not possible to envisage a time when he could be released safely.
Sentencing him at the Old Bailey in January 1994, Judge Lowry said: “It is not possible today to envisage when you could be safely released from prison and as of today life imprisonment should mean what it says – namely imprisonment for life. In my judgment, you should never be released back into the community while there remains the slightest danger you will reoffend.”
Unemployed Hatch, then 21, was convicted after the jury of six women and six men deliberated for less than three hours and smirked when he heard their verdict.
Just over two years earlier, he was jailed for three years for assaulting a boy of eight in almost identical circumstances.
His lawyer warned he could kill when he was released. Within 11 weeks of being paroled in April 1993, Hatch fulfilled that prediction.
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