First It Was Werewolves, Now It’s Vampires
Ok, we had no idea that following right on the heels of news that British police were worried about werewolves would there come an article about British vampires running riot through the countryside. But here it is. Worst of all, they had this low-grade Count Dracula in custody and lost him.
A dangerous blood-drinking mental patient dubbed 'The Vampire' sparked a 12-hour siege in a grandmother's house after escaping from carers during a swimming trip.
Mark Mawson, 40, was serving a life sentence for attempted murder when he ran away from staff at his medium security hospital and caught a taxi to the home of his former girlfriend's mother.
Armed police cleared nearby houses after he was spotting waving a weapon and had to disable him with a plastic bullet before storming the building.
Mawson was detained indefinitely in the 1990s after breaking into an elderly woman's home and almost battering her to death before drinking her blood.
It was in February this year that he escaped from staff at Chadwick Lodge Hospital in Milton Keynes who had taken him to a pool on the premises, which is reached by crossing a public road.
The facility has been repeatedly rocked by scandals involving violent offenders escaping while on shopping trips.
Mawson's criminal history?
It was in 1992 that Mawson broke into the north London home of 62-year-old Alison Da Costa.
After launching a brutal attack he drank blood from her gaping head wounds.
He was detained indefinitely and is said to have had a relationship with former nurse Beverly Allitt while at the high security unit at Rampton, Nottinghamshire.
Allitt, known as the Angel of Death, is Britain's worst lone female serious killer who was given 13 life sentences in 1993 for killing four babies and attacking nine others at Grantham Hospital in Lincolshire.
In April last year, Mawson was arrested following a siege at a secure unit in North Benfleet, Essex. He was subsequently moved to Chadwick Lodge where, it emerged, he was regularly escorted to the pool.
Look, I know I slap the Brits around quite a bit over some of their silliness, but folks over there should be going freaking nuts over this. Why was this man in a "medium security hospital" and not a maximum security lockup? This is the kind of protection the British government gives to its citizens?
World news | Gaius Friday, 8 June , 2007
By Purple Avenger, Friday, 8 June , 2007 @ 12:09 pm
escaping while on shopping trips
Vampires are sneaky like that. Fluorescent lighting at the malls doesn’t bother them the way sunlight does.
By Bleepless, Friday, 8 June , 2007 @ 4:06 pm
The best part is that he escaped from “carers.” No sign of irony at all.