Barry Ford was jailed for 18 years for a series of attack
Barry Ford and Craig McKellar pictured outside Mold Crown Court in 2012.(Image: WalesOnline)
A prolific sex offender who committed a series of sex attacks – some with his son – has died in prison.
In 2012 Barry Ford, then 64, was jailed for 18 years for a string of sex attacks dating back to the 1980s.
Ford was jailed for six counts of rape and 10 of sexual assault.
His son Craig McKellar, said to have been corrupted by his pervert dad, was jailed for 10 years for three counts of rape and four of sexual assault.
The pair, from Colwyn Bay, had both been charity shop workers.
But out of sight they had sexually taken advantage of children and young and vulnerable women.
“They were assaulted, used as sexual objects,” a judge told the pair.
It was revealed previous complaints had been made to the police in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s about Ford but he was not prosecuted.
Victims, many of them children and young people at the time of the offences, came forward in 2011 and complained to North Wales Police.
A report has now been released confirming his death last summer.
An independent investigation into the death at HMP Littlehey, on August 29, was launched.
A report on the investigation was released in April.
Adrian Usher, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, said: “[Ford] died of normal pressure hydrocephalus (a brain condition) caused by frailty in old age, on August 29, 2025, at HMP Littlehey. He was 77 years old.
“The clinical reviewer concluded that the clinical care Mr Ford received at Littlehey was equivalent to that which he could have expected to receive in the community.
“She was satisfied that the relevant care plans were in place and that Mr Ford was reviewed regularly by the palliative nurse.
“She also found that the end-of-life care was of a high standard.”
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