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Cannock Chase child killer Raymond Morris dies in jail | Cannock Chase child killer Raymond Morris dies in jail |
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A man jailed 45 years ago for one of the three Cannock Chase child murders has died in prison. | A man jailed 45 years ago for one of the three Cannock Chase child murders has died in prison. |
Raymond Morris, 84, from Walsall, West Midlands, found guilty of murdering Christine Darby, seven, who went missing in 1967. | |
The Ministry of Justice said he died at HMP Preston at about 20:00 GMT on Tuesday, of suspected natural causes. | |
As with all deaths in custody, there will be an independent investigation by the prisons ombudsman. | |
Seven-year-old Christine was one of three girls living in the West Midlands whose bodies were found on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. | |
In 1965 Margaret Reynolds, aged six, disappeared from Aston, Birmingham, and Diane Tift, aged five, went missing from near her grandmother's home in Bloxwich. | |
They were abducted, raped and murdered before being partially buried on Cannock Chase, a large area of heathland, woods and forestry. | |
No-one was ever charged with their murders. | |
Eighteen months later, seven-year-old Christine was taken from a Walsall street by a man in a grey car. | |
Her body was also found on Cannock Chase. She has also been raped and murdered. | |
The investigation that followed the murders was one of the biggest in British criminal history. | |
Morris was found guilty of Christine's murder in 1969. | |
He made a number of failed appeals against his conviction, most recently at the age of 81. |