THE former owner of the house in Gillam Street where three children were murdered said the 'Monster of Worcester' must never be freed.

Michael Jones and wife Pearl lived at the terraced house in Gillam Street, Worcester, shortly after they got married in September 1967, moving out around two years later.

Mr Jones, aged 73, a former builder and publican, said he still felt 'sick' that their first marital home had later become the scene of the infamous murders in 1973 by David McGreavy, later dubbed 'the Monster of Worcester'.

McGreavy, who murdered three children and impaled their bodies on railings in the city, is being considered for a release from prison.

McGreavy slaughtered Paul Ralph, four, and his sisters Dawn, two, and nine-month-old Samantha in their Worcester home more than 40 years ago.

Paul had been strangled, Dawn was found with her throat cut, and Samantha died from a compound fracture to the skull.

McGreavy, a family friend and lodger, then impaled their mutilated bodies on the spiked garden railings of a house in Gillam Street, Rainbow Hill.

Mr Jones said: "That was my first house when I got married. It comes home to you when you know every inch of that house from living there.

"McGreavy should never be released. He should be kept in prison until he dies.

"This is making their family suffer all over again. Every time this comes out it's causing more upset. I would say to McGreavy in straight English 'you're a bastard and should be locked up for life'.

"He was no good from the start. I believe he's still a danger. Since the murders we have never been anywhere near the house. Us being married and it being our first house, it sticks in your craw, makes you feel sick."

He described the mother of the children (who has been known as both Dorothy and Elsie), as a good mum and her husband Clive as a hard-working man who was away a lot on the road as a long distance lorry driver.

McGreavy was jailed for life in 1973 but is now being considered for parole.

The mother of the murdered children has said dying in prison would be "too much of a luxury" for McGreavy.

Dorothy Urry, 65, says there should be "no question" about ever setting him free.

"What can I say? Everything I say doesn't do any good anyway," she said.

"I've wrote to the Parole Board, I done all I can do. They shouldn't even be considering it. He hasn't done his time and that's all there is to it."

The Parole Board has confirmed that McGreavy's case is under consideration.

A spokesman added in a previous statement: "We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board is currently considering the parole review for David McGreavy."

McGreavy, aged 21 at the time, had been a lodger at the home of Clive and Dorothy Ralph in March 1973 and the couple had left him to babysit on the night of the murders.

Returning home just before midnight, the couple discovered the house in a mess and blood everywhere.

Then, at 1.20am, a police officer found the bodies of the three children impaled on some metal-spiked garden railings between gardens.

Police found McGreavy at 3.05am in nearby Lansdowne Road. He was interviewed in a police car and then taken to a police station.

He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.