A mum whose son may have fallen victim to the notorious 'Frankenstein Killer' says the fiend should never be released. Margaret Parkes suspects Allan Grimson knows what happened to her son Simon as witnesses say he was the last person to see him alive 35 years ago.
Dubbed the Frankenstein Killer by his shipmates because of his "ugly" appearance, Allan Grimson has now been given a parole date after serving 21 years for the murders of two young men.
A judge at his double murder trial deemed him a "serial killer in nature if not in number". Margaret, 76, told the Sunday Mirror she suspects Grimson is "the only person who can put us out of our living hell".
She said: "We implore him to do so. We don’t think that he stopped at just two murders. Serial killers have a thirst for blood.
"We’d like to think the Parole Board will throw out his application to be released until they’re completely satisfied he’s no longer a threat. With so many suspicions hanging over Grimson I’m urging them to think very carefully about possibly releasing him.
"We don’t want other families to have to go through the heartbreak that we have had to endure all these years."
The last sighting of Simon was in December 1986 in a bar with Grimson however the killer denied involvement in the teenager's disappearance. The Crown Prosecution Service refused to charge Grimson with his death as a body was never found and there was only circumstantial evidence to connect him to Simon's disappearance.
Margaret added: "We hope the truth about Simon’s death will come out before we go to our graves. If he is a decent human being and has an ounce of compassion left in his body [Grimson] will do the right thing – but unfortunately I don’t think he’s that type of character.
"He's had 22 years to think on the murders he committed and the judge at the time of the sentencing described him as a serial killer."
Margaret and her husband David, 80, endured more heartbreak in 2000 when their eldest son Derek died of a brain aneurysm. The couple, who live in Bristol, have been in Gibraltar planting a tree in memory of their son.
