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Monster Alexander Pacteau faces new trial after jail claims more than 10 years on from brutal murder of Karen Buckley
Monster Alexander Pacteau faces new trial after jail claims more than 10 years on from brutal murder of Karen Buckley

The Sun

time08-07-2025

  • The Sun

Monster Alexander Pacteau faces new trial after jail claims more than 10 years on from brutal murder of Karen Buckley

MURDER fiend Alexander Pacteau is to stand trial accused of having a secret phone in his jail cell. The monster, 31, was collared a decade into his minimum 23- year sentence for killing student nurse Karen Buckley in Glasgow then trying to dissolve her body in a barrel of chemicals. 6 6 6 Prison sources have told how he attracted the suspicion of guards after bragging about his alleged mobile to fellow inmates. It is claimed the handset was then discovered by staff in the lifer's cell at Saughton nick in Edinburgh. An insider said: 'Pacteau had a phone and was telling other lags that he had one. 'He is very quiet and doesn't speak to many folk inside. He thinks he is better than everyone else. "He thinks he is something special. But word seems to have got out then the screws got onto him and found the mobile.' We told in 2019 how prison chiefs moved the brute to Saughton after he had allegedly caused chaos at HMP Kilmarnock in a row over staff checking mail for drugs. Two years earlier, he had moaned to warders that other lags were urinating in his soup. Pacteau was 21 in April 2015 when he met Karen, 24, outside the former Sanctuary nightclub in Glasgow's west end. The Irish student was on a night out with friends when the ex- private schoolboy persuaded her to go to his car. Pacteau was seen on CCTV talking to her before they drove to nearby Kelvin Way, outside Kelvingrove Park. CCTV footage of Pacteau buying corrosive liquids The motor was parked up for 12 minutes, during which time the brute had strangled her and beat her 12 or 13 times with a spanner. The sicko dumped her phone and bag in the city's Dawsholm Park then carried Karen's body into his flat in nearby Kelvindale. He then tried to dissolve her remains in a bath of caustic soda. Later, he put the body in a vat filled with chemicals and left it in a storage unit at a farm in Milngavie, five miles away. He then paid to have his car professionally cleaned in a further bid to destroy evidence. But some soil remained on the tyres, with tests proving it had been at Dawsholm Park. Pacteau was arrested after Karen's corpse was found four days later. Detectives revealed he had seemed to 'enjoy' being grilled by them over the chilling crime. The remorseless fiend eventually pled guilty to murdering Karen, who had been studying occupational therapy at the city's Caledonian Uni. Caging him at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lady Rae said: 'To you, she was a complete stranger who appears, tragically, to have accepted a lift in your car. 'In a matter of minutes, for some unknown and inexplicable reason, you destroyed her young life.' We told how Karen's dad John Buckley, then 62, from Mourneabbey, County Cork, called Pacteau a 'truly evil coward'. The phone case against Pacteau called today at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. He is expected to go on trial later this month. 6 6

NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby wants to see me. I filled in the paperwork six months ago. So who's blocking my prison visit - and why?
NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby wants to see me. I filled in the paperwork six months ago. So who's blocking my prison visit - and why?

Daily Mail​

time08-07-2025

  • General
  • Daily Mail​

NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby wants to see me. I filled in the paperwork six months ago. So who's blocking my prison visit - and why?

More than six months ago, Lucy Letby applied for me to be put on her 'approved visitor' list. I was sent a form in the post by Sodexo Justice Services which runs HMP Bronzefield where she is held. I dutifully did what was requested of me: filled in all the details, attached a photograph to the form, popped a signed spare in an envelope and returned it all, special delivery.

Australia's most notorious killer is now so overweight he needs three mattresses to sleep on - as details emerge about his pen pal girlfriend
Australia's most notorious killer is now so overweight he needs three mattresses to sleep on - as details emerge about his pen pal girlfriend

Daily Mail​

time07-06-2025

  • Daily Mail​

Australia's most notorious killer is now so overweight he needs three mattresses to sleep on - as details emerge about his pen pal girlfriend

Australia's worst mass murderer, Martin Bryant, is now so overweight he reportedly needs to sleep on three mattresses stacked on top of each other. The 58-year-old also spends his time in Risdon Prison Complex boasting to inmates about a supposed long-distance romance with a woman he calls his 'girlfriend'. Byrant is serving 35 life sentences over the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. In new details obtained exclusively by the Daily Telegraph, it was revealed Bryant is considered 'lower than zero' on the food chain by his fellow inmates. Former inmate Jackson, who was cell neighbours with Bryant, gave a bleak account of his condition behind bars, describing him as untidy, dirty and suffering from acne. The mass murderer is reportedly now so large he sleeps on three 10cm thick mattresses stacked on top of each other in his tiny cell bed, which he rarely leaves. Most bizarrely, Jackson revealed Bryant had a reputation for previously giving sexual favours, in return for chocolates and sweets. 'He's had a few sexual experiences in jail so someone will tease him and go "How about you swap me a head job for a Mars Bar" with such and such,' he said. Jackson recalled the moment he finally summoned the courage to ask Bryant about the Port Arthur massacre, saying the killer's face immediately shifted. He added that he wasn't sure Bryant's mother still visited him but that the killer would speak frequently about a woman he claimed to be in a relationship with. The woman, said to own a horse property in Victoria, was one of 10 people approved by the jail service to have phone calls with Bryant. Jackson said he wasn't sure if the woman ever visited Bryant in jail but that he had once been shown a photo of her by the notorious killer. Former prison guard Tony Burley told the Daily Telegraph he had caught the murderer fixating on himself and other guards with an intense stare. He said this only added to his reputation as an odd and isolated figure. 'In terms of the food chain, he's lower than zero,' Mr Burley said. 'It's not that people don't like him, he just doesn't exist.' 'No one would know who he was, he's not a concern to anybody. He's not targeted, he's nobody.' The Port Arthur massacre remains one of the darkest days in Australia's history. At the time, it was considered the world's worst massacre, with 35 people killed and 23 injured by Martin Byrant, who is serving 35 life sentences and more than a thousand additional years' jail without parole. Bryant has never explained his actions but investigators have speculated the murders were sparked out of retribution for grievances. Others were collateral damage. The shooting prompted significant gun reform under then-prime minister John Howard via the 1996 National Firearms Agreement. The laws banned rapid-fire guns from civilian ownership except under certain, restricted licences. It also tightened requirements for firearms licensing, registration and safe storage and established a government buyback of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles and shotguns.

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