Police killer Dale Cregan 'is moved out of jail to a secure psychiatric hospital where he previously bragged of "living a cushy life"'
Police killer Dale Cregan has reportedly been moved from a top security prison to a secure psychiatric hospital where he once bragged he lived a 'cushy' life.
Cregan, 37, was recently transported under armed guard from Full Sutton in York to the notorious Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside, the Mirror reported.
He was previously moved to the high-security psychiatric hospital in 2015, from where he wrote letters to a friend about his luxury life behind bars.
In a number of letters sent by the one-eyed drug dealer he described his cushy life at the facility - which was likened to a 'holiday camp' by one insider.
He described how he had lost weight by regularly working out at the hospital gym, played tennis and snooker, cooked pizza - although he is banned from using knives - and even enjoyed kayaking sessions in the swimming pool.

Police killer Dale Cregan has reportedly been moved from a top security prison to a secure psychiatric hospital

Police killer Dale Cregan has reportedly been moved from a top security prison to a secure psychiatric hospital
In a letter sent in 2016, Cregan 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*** kicked at snooker and tennis you had me at the kayaking tho bro (ha ha).
'I just train hard and come back to the ward and either do a bit on the ward or just chill in my room.

Cregan was told he would die in prison when he was jailed for life without parole for shooting police officers Fiona Bone (left) and Nicola Hughes (right) in 2012


He was previously moved to the high-security psychiatric hospital in 2015, from where he wrote letters to a friend about his luxury life behind bars. Pictured: A letter sent in 2016
'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.'
Cregan, who lost an eye in a brawl years ago, was told he would die in prison when he was jailed for life without parole for shooting police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes in 2012.
He was already on the run for the murders of David Short, 46, and son Mark, 23, when he killed the two policewomen after luring them to a house with a fake 999 call before shooting them 32 times on the doorstep and then throwing a grenade at them.

An insider claimed his reported return to Ashworth was the result of Cregan 'playing the game' to get away from Category A Full Sutton
The killer was jailed in 2013 and initially sent to Strangeways in Manchester, but following a psychiatric assessment prison bosses decided to send him to Ashworth.
In 2018, he was declared sane and moved back to Manchester and then to Full Sutton in North Yorkshire.
An insider claimed his reported return to Ashworth was the result of Cregan 'playing the game' to get away from Category A Full Sutton.
Two independent psychiatrists would have had to support the claim he needs specialist care for a move to the high-security psychiatric hospital to be made.
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