Facebookers oppose release
Killer's release opposed by friends of victims
A Facebook site has been set up to oppose the potential release of a city student who killed a mother and her son.
Last week this newspaper revealed how 30-year-old Gregory Davis, who butchered Dorothy Rogers and her son Michael in 2003, is set to appear before a Mental Review Tribunal which has the power to release him into an unsupervised hostel.
Davis, 24 at the time of his crimes, is currently living at Littlemoor hospital, Oxford. If deemed well enough to move him into a hostel, he would be subject only to a curfew.
In January 2003, Davis stabbed 48-year-old Dorothy Rogers 31 times, before chasing Michael out of the house and into a children's playground where he stabbed him to death.
The art student, from Great Linford, was later found guilty of manslaughter and sent to Broadmoor mental health hospital.
The Facebook site, entitled 'We are against a brutal double murderer being released into the community,' already has nearly 700 members.
It states: 'Gregory Davis is an extremely dangerous individual.
'This an individual who kept a diary detailing his fantasies of murder, becoming a serial killer and also questioning his mental state.
'The release of Gregory Davis is not only disrespectful to the memory of Michael and Dorothy, but to all those people who were effected by these disgusting crimes.'
One friend of Michael said plans were also being put in place to create a Downing Street petition and for a march on the Houses of Parliament.
He said: "We have applied for a petition and as soon as it is set up it will be advertised on the Facebook site.
"We are also trying to get a march sorted out.
"We want to put as much pressure on as possible and let the Government know we are not going to settle for people just being let out."
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