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Last chapter in life of 50s child killer.
(From The Journal)
Byline: Neil McKay
A BRIEF hearing attended by a handful of people in a County Durham courtroom marked the final chapter of one of Britain's most notorious murders.
When coroner Andrew Tweddle recorded a verdict of natural causes on John Thomas Straffen at Darlington County Court, the hearing passed almost without notice.
Yet Straffen was once reviled throughout Britain as the brutal killer of three little girls.
He was Britain's longest-serving prisoner when he died in top-security Frankland Prison in Durham on November 19, 2007, after serving 55 years in jail.
The triple murderer was 77 and had spent several weeks in the health centre at Frankland due to ill-health.
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