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A triple child killer dubbed the "Monster of Worcester" after he impaled three siblings on railings will be banned from the city he terrorised when he is released this year.

David McGreavy , now 67, beat to death Samantha Urry, nine months, strangled her brother Paul, four, and cut the throat of their two-year-old sister Dawn.

He mutilated their bodies with a pickaxe before impaling them on a neighbour's spiked garden railings on Friday April 13 1973.

He was jailed for life but last November a three-member Parole Board cleared him for release, saying he is no longer a "significant risk".

Ahead of his release, Conservative MP Robin Walker, who represents Worcester, revealed he would be banned from entering the city.

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He said he had met with the chief executive of the parole board who reassured him McGreavy would not return to Worcester.

He said: "It was an appalling crime and I believe McGreavy should not be released at all.

"However, we must accept the parole board have made their decision.

"We have been assured multiple reports have taken place and psychotic assessments have been done on McGreavy to ensure he is no longer a risk.

"There will be restrictions on him coming back to Worcester. He will not be allowed to contact the victim's family members or witnesses of the murders in Gillam Street.

"Obviously, many of those still remain in Worcester, however we have been assured he will not be able to return."

The law has been changed and his sentence has expired. If crimes of this nature happen today, they would get a life sentence.

Mr Walker said: "A life sentence should mean life. I am still raising objections on how I feel, and I do not believe the individual should be released.

"We will continue working to maximise pressures. It is now in the hands of the Ministry of Justice for his release plan.

"We need to make sure the licensing conditions are tough.

"Based on accountable reports, the parole board has said the individual is not considered a risk."

Mr Walker said there are a number of conditions attached to McGreavy's release, including that he must reside at a designated address, comply with an enhanced form of supervision and monitoring, respect a specified curfew, and comply with other identified limitations regarding contacts and activities.

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Ex-sailor McGreavy was 21 when he was a lodger at the Worcester home of barmaid Elsie and husband Clive Ralph. He babysat for them for more than two years without incident.

But on Friday, April 13, 1973, he went berserk when Samantha started crying and fractured her skull. He then used a wire to strangle Paul and cut Dawn's throat.

After mutilating the bodies he impaled them on railings.

McGreavy was jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years after a trial which lasted just eight minutes because he pleaded guilty and did not claim diminished responsibility.

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He has been eligible for parole for 25 years but every previous application has been turned down. The last refusal was in 2016.

But last November the Parole Board ruled McGreavy had "changed considerably" during 45 years in jail and no longer posed a "significant risk to the public".

The panel said it had found McGreavy had "developed self-control", and took "full responsibility" for his crimes.

It also said he had a "considerable understanding of the problems he has had and what caused them."

McGreavy is now expected to be released to a bail hostel this year. He is currently in category C Warren Hill prison, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.