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20/08/95
- Rosie's killer on hunger strike in jail
By GARY JONES
Chief Crime Reporter
News of the World
EVIL Tony Armstrong has gone on hunger strike claiming
he wants to die for murdering little Rosie Palmer. Armstrong,
33, confessed to a News of the World reporter before
his trial. Now he has told her: "I have been on
total hunger strike, with no food and nothing to drink.
I haven't begun to feel really bad, that will take another
few days. "This is the only thing that I can think
of that will in some way pay for what I did. "I
admit my guilt but I should also try and atone in some
way."
Rosie, three, was killed in Hartlepool, Cleveland, in
July last year. Armstrong planned to fake madness to
get a sentence for manslaughter, but he pleaded guilty
to murder instead after we revealed his plan.
He had admitted his sickening crime in besotted letters
to the woman reporter whom he thought was a pen-pal.
Prison chiefs now believe Armstrong may commit suicide
and he has been moved to a secure cell in Wakefield
jail.
He wrote: "They have got me in a strip cell with
nothing except a couple of blankets. "It's one
hell of a place to spend your final days." |
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