A notorious serial killer could soon be released – with the help of police.
Patrick Mackay – the country’s longest-serving lag – could win parole because two forces are refusing to reopen eight unsolved murder cases.
The Nazi-loving psychopath, 67, was jailed in 1975 for strangling two old ladies and butchering a Roman Catholic priest with an axe.
Two further suspected killings – a shopkeeper and a 73-year-old woman – were left on file as detectives felt they had enough to put him away forever.
But once caged for life for manslaughter with diminished responsibility, Mackay told fellow inmates of three more victims – a teenage nanny on a train and a widow and her four-year-old grandson.
But Mackay, who is said to have refused to accept his father Harold was dead and would not come to his funeral in Scotland, denied the confessions when questioned by police.
A parole board will this week decide if Mackay – whose victims lived in and around London – is safe to be freed after being moved to an open prison two years ago.
MP Gareth Johnson fears he will return to his home town of Gravesend, Kent, and asked police to look at the cases but his request for reviews was refused.
He said: It’s bitterly disappointing. He’s one of Britain’s most prolific killers and should die behind bars.”
