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22/05/2013
Child Killer Loses Right To Anonymity
A convicted child killer has lost his anonymity after the High Court overturned the order.
62-year-old David McGreavy was sentenced to life in jail in 1973 for the murders of Paul Ralph, 4, and his sisters Dawn, 2, and Samantha, who was nine-months-old.
The children were killed at their home in Gillam Street, Worchester, and impaled on the railings in the garden of the house.
The three children were all killed in different ways. Paul was strangled, Dawn had her throat cut and Samantha died from a compound fracture to her skull.
Previously, the media had only been able to report the killings as “three sadistic murders”.
Alongside media organisations, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling argued that the application was “legally flawed”, saying that it prevented the public knowing the full facts of the case.
According to the BBC, their counsel, Guy Vassall-Adams, told the court: "The full facts are exceptionally horrific by even the standard of murders.
"The order restricted the media to saying they were 'three sadistic murders' but that doesn't even give you the half of it."
Lord Justice Pitchford, sitting in London with Mr Justice Simon, ruled the anonymity order must be discharged.
(MH/CD)
62-year-old David McGreavy was sentenced to life in jail in 1973 for the murders of Paul Ralph, 4, and his sisters Dawn, 2, and Samantha, who was nine-months-old.
The children were killed at their home in Gillam Street, Worchester, and impaled on the railings in the garden of the house.
The three children were all killed in different ways. Paul was strangled, Dawn had her throat cut and Samantha died from a compound fracture to her skull.
Previously, the media had only been able to report the killings as “three sadistic murders”.
Alongside media organisations, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling argued that the application was “legally flawed”, saying that it prevented the public knowing the full facts of the case.
According to the BBC, their counsel, Guy Vassall-Adams, told the court: "The full facts are exceptionally horrific by even the standard of murders.
"The order restricted the media to saying they were 'three sadistic murders' but that doesn't even give you the half of it."
Lord Justice Pitchford, sitting in London with Mr Justice Simon, ruled the anonymity order must be discharged.
(MH/CD)
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