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Family of Glasgow butcher killer say he was treated inhumanely while dying

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Convicted killer John Gallagher, 72, should have been released on compassionate grounds, says his widow, but was instead chained to guards as he lay dying in hospital.

The family of a man convicted of the murder of a butcher during a botched robbery in Glasgow claim he was treated inhumanely in the last days of his life.

Susie said her husband was kept under constant guard in hospital by custody officers from a private prison escort firm employed by the Scottish Prison Service. Gallagher died before his lawyer’s ­application to Scottish Government ministers for him to be freed could be heard.But he gained infamy in 1984 when prisoners at ­Peterhead rioted, taking two prison officers hostage and breaking through the top of the jail to protest at conditions. The five-day stand-off ended when the then PM Margaret Thatcher called in the SAS.

Susie, of Culloden, Inverness, said her husband should have been given compassionate release in the same way as Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi. A fatal accident inquiry will be held into his death. Gallagher’s lawyer Graham Mann said: “We wrote to the Scottish ministers and asked for his ­immediate release but it didn’t happen.

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