Nottingham Trent University is facing criticism amid national reports a third killer has been allowed to give lectures to students.
The Mirror Online reports Michael Lester, who killed 76-year-old grandma Florence White to get cash for heroin, has a paid role at the institution.
The Sunday People has revealed how criminology Professor Belinda Winder has been suspended and faces an internal investigation over alleged links to two other killers.
Lester was jailed in 2000 for the murder of Florence and uses a different name in his paid position as a researcher in Prof Winder’s department.
He took a university post after being freed in 2013 and has been allowed on campus to give lectures.
Lester, now 49, has contributed to Prof Winder’s book, Forensic Interventions for Therapy and Rehabilitation, out in December.
The Mirror Online has also revealed how her team arranged for Daniel Micklethwaite - now 41, who murdered grandfather John Hayward, 50, in 2007 - to leave jail, visit her university’s campus and get paid to lecture postgraduate students about prison life.
NTU said Lester was employed on a “fixed-term research associate contract which ends in December”.
A spokesman for the university said a risk assessment conducted with the prison service was completed before his appointment.
They said: “Like many universities and several other organisations, NTU employs staff who have former convictions and follows legal requirements.
“Work is often a key part of their rehabilitation.
“They contribute to our teaching and research into the rehabilitation of offenders.
“This aims to reduce further offending, particularly through understanding the impact on victims of crime.”
Prof Winder has refused to comment.
