Sick Robin Ligus will die in custody

Friday 23rd September 2011, 12:20PM BST.

Shropshire serial killer Robin Ligus will die in custody, he was told by a judge today.

Ligus was ordered to be locked up indefinitely in a secure hospital after being found responsible for the brutal murders of two men in 1994.

And he was warned by Mr Justice Colman Treacy his incarceration at the hospital was likely to be a ‘permanent state of affairs’ based on the evidence he had seen in relation to the murders of Trevor Bradley and Brian Coles.

Ligus, who used to live in Shrewsbury, was told he would now be moved from Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes to a medium secure unit at St Andrew’s Hospital in Northampton.

The judge said he had taken the advice of clinical experts before sentencing who suggested Ligus should not be detained in a high security unit because of his ‘vulnerability’ to abuse from other patients.

Ligus, 59, who appeared via video link from prison, showed no emotion as he was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court. He was previously jailed for life in 1996 for the killing of Ro- bert Young, 75, in Shrewsbury in October 1994.

A month-long trial this year resulted in a jury also finding him responsible for the deaths of Mr Bradley and Mr Coles, but acquitted him of involvement in the death of Bernard Czyzewska, whose body was found in the River Severn in Shrewsbury in November 1994.

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