![]() ![]() 'Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.'Ī panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims. Judge Sally Cahill, QC, imposed a five-year prison sentence.Ī spokesperson for the Parole Board said: 'We can confirm the parole review of Neil Preece-Smith has been referred to the Parole Board by the Secretary of State for Justice and is following standard processes. The court heard the inmate used a phone line which was encrypted so conversations could not be recorded. Preece-Smith, now 37, was locked up with Whiting at Category A Wakefield prison (pictured) in West Yorkshire when he plotted the attackĪt Leeds Crown Court, Richard Walters, prosecuting, said Preece-Smith was on the segregation unit, where inmates were allowed to ring The Samaritans if they were in a low mood. In 2017, Preece-Smith made multiple phone calls claiming that he had left bombs outside railway stations and in the car park at Wakefield prison. Mr Clegg had been in prison for 12 days and was due to be released to a bail hostel the day after his death. West Yorkshire Police Superintendent Colin Prime, who led the investigation, told the court he had recommended charging Preece-Smith with murder but the CPS believed there was not enough evidence. Preece-Smith told the jury that he pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting suicide because he 'didn't want to get done for a serious charge'. I waited half an hour then pressed the cell bell. he tried to use his hands to pull himself up but I pulled down on his legs until he was dead. 'Then I gave him three choices: to hang himself, or I would hang him, or I would cut him up.' 'I ripped up a bed sheet, made a noose, made little cuts with the blade, not to kill him, but to make him scared enough to put his neck in the noose. He described how he tied Mr Clegg's ankles and hands using the victim's shoelaces while threatening him with a makeshift knife. He told the court via video link from HMP Leeds that he killed Mr Clegg after being pressured by other prisoners to 'deal' with his cellmate, whom they wrongly believed to be a paedophile. Then aged 26, he stunned an inquest into the death of remand prisoner Michael Clegg, 48, by claiming that he had murdered his cellmate on May 9, 2006. Later the same year, he was handed a 10-year prison sentence for aiding and abetting his cellmate's suicide at Armley Prison in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The sentencing judge described him as 'extremely dangerous'. In 2006, he was sentenced to life in prison for torching an ex-offenders' hostel as he wanted to kill people staying there. 'Should I come into contact with a sex offender, I will carry out my threat.' He added: 'If I come into contact with these people, I will carry out my threat but at the moment I am on F-Wing and I have stability. He told Recorder Jeremy Barnett when asked why he had committed the offences: 'There is a person in Wakefield called Roy Whiting and I have threatened him before.' ![]() ![]() He pleaded guilty to four offences of possession of a prohibited article and was given a two year sentence. He admitted that he had made them and intended to use them on sex offenders in the prison. Preece-Smith confessed at Leeds Crown Court after being found in possession of the weapons on four occasions. ![]() Whiting is serving a life sentence in the prison for the abduction and murder of eight-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Payne in July 2000. Preece-Smith, now 37, was locked up with evil Whiting at Category A Wakefield prison in West Yorkshire when he plotted the attack. Originally convicted of arson, he hit the headlines in 2016 when he admitted plotting to kill Whiting, one of Britain's most notorious child killers, by using sharpened toothbrushes. Preece-Smith will face tough questions from the parole panel as he has a history of aggressive behaviour and serious offending behind bars. Preece-Smith plotted to kill child killer Roy Whiting (pictured). Whiting is serving a life sentence for the abduction and murder of eight-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Payne in July 2000 | A Time to Kill | Movies (function(w,d,s,l,i). ![]()
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