Yahoo News Child Serial Killer Robert Black Dies In Prison
Child serial killer Robert Black has died aged 68 at Maghaberry jail in Northern Ireland.
Black was convicted of murdering four children during the 1980s and was suspected of other killings.
His last conviction came in 2011 when he was given another life sentence for the 1981 abduction and murder of Jennifer Cardy.
He snatched the nine-year-old as she cycled to a friend's house in Ballinderry, Co Antrim.
The former delivery driver abducted Jennifer while on a work trip to Northern Ireland.
He dumped her body in water before catching a ferry home.
Reacting to the paedophile's death, Phillip Cardy, Jennifer's brother, said: "I have no hate for him, I couldn't muster the hate for him."
The 2011 conviction came while he was already serving life terms for three other murders.
In 1994, he was found guilty of killing 11-year-old Susan Maxwell, from the Scottish Borders, five-year-old Caroline Hogg, from Edinburgh, and Sarah Harper, 10, from Morley, near Leeds.
He was also convicted of a failed abduction in Nottingham in 1988.
Black was caught in 1990 when police found him with a six-year-old girl bound and gagged in a sleeping bag in the back of his van. He had just sexually assaulted her.
He was also the main suspect in the case of missing Genette Tate, 13, last seen in rural Devon in 1978.
The delivery girl's newspapers and bike were found but her body has never been discovered.
Black was arrested but there was not enough evidence to bring charges.
Prosecutors at his last trial pushed for the Scottish-born killer to get a whole-life term but the judge gave him another life sentence with a minimum of 25 years.
A NI Prison Service spokeswoman said: "The Prison Service has confirmed that a 68-year-old prisoner has died at Maghaberry Prison.
"While this is not being treated as suspicious, the Prison Service has informed the PSNI, Coroner, and Prisoner Ombudsman. It would not be appropriate to comment further at this time."
