Axe murderer Thomas McCulloch makes fresh bid for early release
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McCulloch is currently in HMP Castle Huntly, an open prison near Aberdeen, after killing three people in 1976 at the Carstairs State Hospital and is now re-applying to the parole board to be let out early.
The application is the latest in a long line of bids for freedom, all of which have been refused as he is still deemed too dangerous.
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Hide AdDiagnosed as a psychopath, McCulloch was detained without limit of time in Carstairs in 1970, where he struck up a partnership with another patient, Robert Mone.
The 1976 escape bid saw McCulloch, along with Mone, kill a policeman, a nurse, and scaling a barbed-wire fence.
The pair were caught a short while later in Carlisle