{"id":87318,"date":"2025-05-09T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87318\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:15:11","slug":"evil-and-dangerous-man-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87318\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Evil and dangerous’ man dies in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Lovett punched and strangled a 76-year-old woman while pretending to work for a charity\"NeilNeil Lovell has died in prison<\/p>\n

A career criminal who was described as an “evil” and “dangerous” man has died in prison. Neil Lovell brutally assaulted pensioner Dorothy McCulley at her Hightown home<\/a> while he was high on crack cocaine in November 2011.<\/p>\n

Lovell was high on crack cocaine when he targeted the then-76-year-old’s home, claiming he was working for a charity. She was punched, strangled and dragged across the floor in the attempted robbery at her home.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Crown Court heard the following year how Lovell – who had been released from a 12-year jail sentence for a similar attack just weeks before – told his frightened victim: \u201cShut up or I will kill you\u201d.<\/p>\n

He then punched Barbara Chislett, then-64, who rushed to her neighbour’s aid after hearing her screams of terror. Lovell pleaded guilty to charges of assault with intent to rob and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n

Lovell, of Lind Street, Walton<\/a>, was given an indeterminate sentence, which means he could not be eligible for release until it was proved safe to do so.<\/p>\n

The Prison and Probations Ombudsman has now confirmed the 58-year-old died while a prisoner at HMP Stocken in Rutland on April 21 this year. The PPO is now conducting an investigation into Lovell’s death at the category C prison.<\/p>\n

When sentencing the violent thug in 2012, Judge Bryn Holloway said: \u201cI have served 21 years at the Bar and I am in my 20th year as a judge. I often think I have heard it all and nothing could be worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this is as bad a case of robbery I have heard in all that time. Your behaviour towards this unfortunate lady was quite appalling. You have an appalling record of very similar types of offences.<\/p>\n

“You are just an evil, dangerous man who should be locked away for as long as possible, until such a time as when others deem it safe for you to be let out.\u201d<\/p>\n

After he was locked up, Mrs McCulley said<\/a>: “I am pleased the judge has recognised how dangerous Lovell is.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would have happened if I hadn’t been as strong or Barbara hadn’t come to help? Lovell could have killed me.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy balance has been badly affected. I can’t go outside without help for fear of losing my balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI refuse to live in fear and I’m determined it is not going to spoil the rest of my life but I am certainly more careful now when people I don’t know come to the door.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole reason Lovell got in my house was because I did not want to be rude and talk to him through the door.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I have new locks and a glass door so I can see who is there and I always ask to see their identity card first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barbara Chislett added: \u201cIt was an appalling thing that happened to Dorothy and I. I am delighted with the outcome at court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Lovett punched and strangled a 76-year-old woman while pretending to work for a charityNeil Lovell has died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[188,41748,12,12459,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-87318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-hightown","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sefton","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114477827810943759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}