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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

"Skull Cracker" robber has been seen in London..[ 4168 ]


'Skull Cracker' Michael Wheatley sighted in London

BBC,. 6 May 2014 Last updated at 08:44 GMT

Michael Wheatley raided 13 banks and building societies Michael Wheatley raided 13 banks and building societies between 2001 and 2002

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"Skull Cracker" robber Michael Wheatley, who absconded from an open prison, has been seen in London.
Police were called to an address in Twickenham, south-west London, on Monday evening, but did not find him.
Wheatley, 55, was given 13 life sentences in 2002 for a string of raids on banks and building societies.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said he would check that the risk Wheatley posed was properly assessed before he was transferred to an open prison.
Kent Police said he failed to return to HMP Standford Hill on the Isle of Sheppey after being allowed out.
Wheatley was jailed after 13 raids over a 10-month period in 2001 and 2002 while on parole from a 27-year sentence for other robberies.
He was given the nickname of "Skull Cracker" for pistol-whipping victims, including a 73-year-old woman, during the raids.
Michael Wheatley Michael Wheatley failed to return after leaving an open prison
The 2001-02 robberies took place over an area from Southampton to Royston, Hertfordshire.
Sentencing Wheatley at the Old Bailey for the robberies and for possession of an imitation firearm, Judge Michael Mettyear told him he could be considered for parole after eight years.
'Very violent man' Clare Townsend, who had a gun held to her head by Wheatley when he was robbing a branch of Halifax during that spree, told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I was on the net looking at various news items and I suddenly saw a picture of him and I felt quite shocked.
"I do understand that when prisoners are being prepared for a return to ordinary life that at some point they will need to be in something akin to an open prison, but he was a very violent man.
"Because he's absconded, I think it shows he's not really set on reform."
On Monday, Conservative backbencher Philip Davies, MP for Shipley in West Yorkshire, said whoever had allowed Wheatley out of prison was "a berk".
"It is completely ludicrous that a serving life-sentence prisoner is even in an open prison where they can simply walk out," he said.
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"As far as I am concerned whoever allowed him to be in an open prison should be sacked."
Mr Grayling said: "I want to know precisely what happened.
"He is clearly in open prison after a decision by the Independent Parole Board, but I want to be sure the proper risk assessments were carried out.
"It's obviously important that people who are a threat to members of the public are kept behind bars."
Police have advised the public not to approach Wheatley, who is originally from Limehouse in east London but has links across south-east Englan
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