A mother whose son was murdered by a man he met on Grindr said she is still fighting for justice after he only spent two hours in jail.
Beverley Davies, the mum to Alex Davies who was killed by Brian Healless in 2019, is demanding a change to the justice system following transfer to a psychiatric hospital just two hours into his sentence.
The mum featured on an MTV UK programme on Wednesday night which explored the horrific murder of 18-year-old Alex Davies who was knifed 128 times by Healless.
After chatting to Brian Healless, now 20, on the dating app, Alex decided to meet up with his evil killer, who lured him to a rural beauty spot before stabbing him to death.
During the murder trial it was heard how twisted Healless attempted to set up similar outdoor meetings with four other males on Grindr in the days after the killing in April 2019.
Preston Crown Court heard that Healless was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia when he killed Davies in woods at Parbold Hill near Ormskirk.
A jury later rejected his partial defence that his responsibility for the killing was diminished by his mental state, according to Liverpool Echo.
Alex’s mother, Beverley Davies, told MTV correspondent Linda Adey she believes Healless has been feigning illness and that his actions were “too calculated”.
Beverley said: “He should be in jail, and he should never, ever be let out.”
The judge who sentenced him in March last year, to life with a minimum term of 24 years, said it was “extremely fortuitous” Healless was arrested before anyone else suffered the same fate as the “gentle, kind-hearted” sales assistant from Skelmersdale.
Healless was treated at Guild Lodge Hospital in Preston before conviction and was returned there on the day of his sentencing, following a request from the doctor overseeing his care - who also gave evidence for the defence at the trial.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman previously told PA news agency: “Prisoners may be transferred for treatment in mental health hospitals, based on assessments by expert clinicians, but will return to serve their sentence in prison once they are fit to do so.”
