Con serving minor knife sentence but wrote letters from jail threatening to kill and have sex with the corpses jailed for further 45 years
Richard Ford, 38, warned he would kill a total of 10 people once he was released from Nottingham Prison
A "SADISTIC" con serving time for a knife crime has been sentenced to a further 45 years in jail for writing letters from prison threatening to kill and have sex with corpses.
Richard Ford, 38, warned he would kill a total of 10 people once he was released from Nottingham Prison.
Jail staff discovered the sinister series of letters in January this year while Ford was serving a 30-month jail sentence for possession of a knife in a public place.
A court heard that in the hand-written notes the sick offender gave details of people he wanted to kill and said he wanted to have sex with their corpses.
Ford, of no fixed address, admitted ten charges of making threats to kill at Lincoln Crown Court on Monday.
Sentencing via video link, Judge Michael Heath imposed five consecutive nine year jail terms with a further five sentences of nine years to run concurrently.
He told Ford the "controversial" lengthy sentence was the only way he could protect the public.
He said even though Ford vowed to kill and wished to remain in prison the maximum sentence he could impose was ten years for each charge.
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Judge Heath added: "Your case has caused me very considerable anxiety. You are plainly dangerous.
"You made it clear to a psychiatrist that you still want your victims to believe that you will harm them and also that you wish to harm them.
"You say you don't feel that you can stop yourself from acting upon your sadistic urges.
"Those urges are to kill and have sexual intercourse with the corpses of those whom you kill.
";You have made it clear to me that you do not wish to be released from prison.
";If you are released you think you will get drunk, obtain a weapon and kill.
"It is quite clear that if you are set at large you will pose a grave and immediate danger to the public.
"The maximum sentence for an offence of making a threat to kill is 10 years imprisonment thus I cannot impose a sentence of imprisonment for life although you have been anxious to let me know that you don't want to be released.
Ford was serving time at HMP Nottingham, pictured, when he penned the string of sick letters"There is no medical recommendation before me for a medical disposal so I cannot legally make a hospital order.
"I am anxious in sentencing you to ensure that the public are protected and that is my paramount concern.
"At the same time I have to pass a sentence that is not wholly disproportionate to your criminality.
"Achieving both of these aims in this case is impossible.
"I realise that the overall length of the sentences I am going to pass is highly unusual and may be controversial but I pass them because I deem them to be the only adequate way to protect the public in your case."
Jonathan Straw, prosecuting, said Ford handed a letter to a prison officer saying he wanted to have sex with a fellow prisoner and kill him.
Six days later Ford spoke to another prison officer saying he wanted to inflict violence.
He subsequently handed over four notes to prison staff give details of people he wanted to kill.
Several prison officers, a fellow inmate, a district judge, a police officer and a former homosexual partner were all named by Ford as people he wanted to kill.
The court also heard that Ford had convictions in 2002 and 2003 for indecency offences against men.
He has since been convicted in 2011, 2013 and 2014 for offences of possession of a knife in a public
place.
Isabelle Wilson, defending, said that Ford has spent most of the last 14 years in prison.
She said: "He does not wish to be released. He does not feel he is safe to be released.
"He does wish to receive treatment either in a prison or in a hospital setting.
"The thoughts he discusses are concerning but at least he is willing to speak about those thoughts openly."
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