Jailed double killer who threatened to kill ‘Christian scum’ before murdering vicar and retired teacher has died at high security prison HMP Frankland

• Stephen Farrow killed Reverend John Suddards at his vicarage in February 2012

A sadistic double killer has died aged 58 suddenly in prison serving a double life sentence.

Stephen Farrow stabbed Reverend John Suddards at his vicarage watched him as he died in February 2012, just weeks after killing retired teacher Betty Yates, 77.

He was handed a double-life sentence, which meant life in prison with no chance of parole, one of just 63 people ever to receive such a term.

Farrow had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in 2017, claiming it breached the article prohibiting ‘inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’.

But the court rejected his appeal, finally putting an end to the saga surrounding ‘life-means-life’ sentences brought to the fore by some of Britain’s most infamous killers. 

Farrow, a homeless drifter, killed Rev Studdards in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, six weeks after he also killed 77-year-old retired teacher Betty Yates

Following the ruling the-then Justice Secretary Liz Truss said: ‘It is right that those who commit the most heinous crimes spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

‘It is also wholly right that judges are able to hand down whole-life sentences to the very worst offenders in our society.’

Farrow, a homeless drifter, killed Rev Studdards in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, six weeks after he also killed 77-year-old retired teacher Betty Yates.

He bludgeoned her with a walking stick before stabbing her four times at her home in Bewdley, Worcestershire. 

Farrow, a homeless drifter, killed Rev Studdards (pictured) and another woman. He was jailed for life with no chance of parole

He stabbed Reverend John Suddards at his vicarage (pictured) in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, and watched him him die in February 2012

Farrow (left) killed the vicar just six weeks after he after he also killed 77-year-old retired teacher Betty Yates (right) 

The homeless drifter bludgeoned Mrs Yates with a walking stick before stabbing her four times at her home in Bewdley, Worcestershire (pictured)

When he was jailed, he joined the likes of Arthur Hutchinson, one-eyed police killer Dale Cregan and Moors murderer Ian Brady, also given ‘life-means-life’ sentences.

Farrow had a psychological disorder and when he was aged just ten, he set fire to a church altar and stood and watched as it burned.

He was expelled on his first day of school, experienced bullying, fighting, using weapons, setting fires and robbery.

He went on to claim he had been abused as a child by the priests at his boarding school, but was found by psychiatrists to be a pathological liar, with a ‘grandiose sense of self-worth’. 

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