The Monster of Worcester: David McGreavy

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David McGreavy, now aged 65, has spent more than 40 years in prison, but has never offered any real explanation for his actions.

As Mcgreavy had offered no plea, no motive and no claim of diminished responsibility, the trial lasted just eight scant minutes. A lodger who killed three young children at their home before hanging their bodies on garden railings has been released from prison. As a baby Samantha constantly cried for her bottle, she would do this every night, he was used to caring for the children and was very good at it. Earlier that evening David had gone to Buck’s Hill pub with a friend, where he drank around 7 pints of beer. Elsie Urry, Children’s MotherIn prison, McGreavy becomes one of the country’s most notorious and long serving prisoners.At his first Naval posting, HMS Eagle in Portsmouth, colleagues of Mcgreavy were struck by the arrogance and cockiness of the young rating, and he was frequently subject to disciplinary measures. Initially, he had no idea what to do when he was interviewed by those higher up and continued to change his story stating he did break in but the fire was not started intentionally, his lit cigarette dropped in the bin.

They shepherded him out quickly – they didn’t bring him in till the last minute, till the magistrates were ready, and they took him out straight away.

The following act completely horrified detectives and is the reason 49 years on he remains so memorable. When Elsie Ralph, young mother of three, began a clandestine affair with a younger man David McGreavy, she could have had no inkling of the horror this relationship would eventually bring into her life.