Cop killer Dale Cregan boasts about ‘holiday camp’ prison during life sentence

Dale Cregan was jailed in 2013 (Picture: Rex Features)

Vile cop killer Dale Cregan has boasted of his cushy life behind bars, and how he regularly plays tennis and snooker in his spare time.

Cregan, 33 is serving a life sentence for the murders of police officers Fiona Bone, 32, and 23-year-old Nicola Hughes, after he lured them to the house where he was hiding in 2012.

But he has now compared life at Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside to a ‘holiday camp’.

Dale Cregan killed Pc Fiona Bone and Pc Nicola Hughes in 2012 (Picture: PA)

In a letter to friends obtained by The Mirror, Cregan boasted of how he is fed luxury pizza, and regularly attends kayaking sessions in a swimming pool.

Cregan, who also killed father and son David and Mark Short in a four-month reign of terror, wrote: ‘I’m good bro just smashing the gym and playing snooker you know how it goes.

‘Been doin pure circuits on the ward. You know you got your a**e kicked at snooker and tennis you had me at the kayaking tho bro (ha ha).’

In another extract from the letter, Cregan explains how life is much easier than being behind bars at Strangeways Prison, where he was initially incarcerated in 2013.

‘I’m on normal gym now, been training with **** and **** and they both seem sound’, he wrote.

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‘I just train hard and come back to the ward and either do a bit on the ward or just chill in my room. It’s not ideal but it beats sitting on the block miles from home innit bro. Gym, phone call and a visit and I’m happy brother.’

It’s also believed that he is allowed to cook pizza, but is not allowed to use knives.

Cretan is currently incarcerated at Ashworth Hospital (Picture: REX Features)

An inside source told The Mirror: ‘Cregan is quite happy with his phone calls and going to the gym. It is better than being in prison and being locked up for 23 hours a day. Everyone fights to get in Ashworth. It is like a little ­collection of youth centres.’

Cregan was moved to Ashworth Hospital in 2013, and is one of 227 inmates incarcerated at the facility, including notorious Moors murderer Ian Brady.