'He's a psychopath' Mum's relief as the 'Frankenstein Killer' remains behind bars

THE Kingswood mother of a suspected victim of the 'Frankenstein Killer' who disappeared from a Navy ship in the mid-80s has expressed relief at his failed bid for freedom.

- Tom BEVAN

Margaret Parkes said her son's suspected killer Allan Grimson, who was refused parole on Wednesday should "never be freed" and urged him to give up details of what happened to her son.

She has spent nearly four decades desperate to know the whereabouts of her Naval rating son Simon Parkes, who was just 18 when he vanished without trace in the final leg of a worldwide deployment on HMS Illustrious in 1986.

His family are convinced he was another victim of serial killer Grimson, a former petty officer, who was also serving aboard the ship at the time.

Grimson was jailed for 22 years in 2001, then aged 42, for the murder of naval rating Nicholas Wright, 18, from Leicester, and barman Sion Jenkins, 20, from Newbury, Berks. But he is now eligible for potential parole and the family feared he could soon be free.

After the hearing was delayed for several months, Simon's family has now been told he will remain in prison - after the parole board rejected his application on public safety grounds.

Speaking yesterday Margaret, 79, of Kingswood, said: "They have made the right decision. There was no other decision they could make.

"As a family we are going through a life sentence not knowing what happened to Simon or where he is buried.

"It is only right, at least until he gives up that information, that he suffers the same."

The monster - dubbed the 'Frankenstein Killer' who described killing as "better than sex" - has always denied involvement in the disappearance of Mr Parkes, although his family maintain they are "100 per cent certain" he was responsible.