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Murderer dies in prison from natural causes
Heywood and Middleton Guardian
|September 04, 2025
A MURDERER who brutally killed a homeless person in Weston-super-Mare in a row over £12 has died in a prison in Rochdale.
Terence Townsend, from Cardiff, was handed a life sentence in 2007 after being found guilty of murdering homeless John Dunn.
Townsend died aged 68 at Rochdale’s HMP Buckley Hall in February due to the presence of blood in pericardium, the sac around his heart. The blood was a result of a tear in his heart.
Prisons ombudsman Adrian Usher said the death was from natural causes.
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