Dale Cregan: Three Charged With Helping Killer

Three people have been charged with helping jailed police killer Dale Cregan while he was on the run.

Marvin Herbert, 41, was arrested at a gym in Puerto Banus, near Marbella, in Spain, and extradited to the UK on Thursday.

He was charged on Friday at Manchester City Magistrates' Court with conspiracy to assist an offender.

Herbert, who was born in Liverpool and has lived in the London area, was remanded in custody and will appear at Manchester Crown Court on October 18.

Two others - Raj Mohammed Khan, 41, of Bradford, and Patricia Kelly, 55, of Droylsden, Greater Manchester - were charged with the same offence on Friday.

They appeared at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Saturday and were remanded in custody.

The charges relate to the period between August 10 and September 17 last year when Cregan and accomplices Anthony Wilkinson and Jermaine Ward were wanted by police.

One-eyed killer Cregan was given a whole-life sentence earlier this year for the murders of PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone and father and son David and Mark Short.

Last month, Cregan was moved to maximum-security Ashworth Hospital - where Moors Murderer Ian Brady is serving his sentence - from Strangeways jail in Manchester because of his behaviour.

While in HMP Manchester, he was segregated from other prisoners for fear of reprisals. Reports suggest there is an underworld bounty of £20,000 on his remaining eye.

In protest, Cregan is said to have have started refusing food. He was put in the hospital wing at the jail before his transfer to Ashworth.