Colin Hatch

Colin David Hatch (1972 - 22 February 2011) was a convicted murderer and sexual abuser from Finchley, North London. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Sean Williams on 19 July 1993. He also had convictions for attacks on five other boys, beginning in 1987 when he was 15. In 1992, when he was jailed for assaulting an 8-year-old boy, his own lawyer warned that he could kill if released. In 2011, while serving the sentence for the murder of Sean Williams, he was murdered in an incident at Full Sutton prison.
Convictions
In 1991, Hatch abused a 10-year-old boy, dragging him into a lift and indecently assaulting him. In 1992, Hatch assaulted and choked an 8-year-old boy until he lost consciousness. A psychiatrist, Dr. Wilkins suggested that he should be sent to Broadmoor Hospital, but as they decided he was not dangerous enough, he was jailed for three years. He was then paroled in April 1993. Eleven months later, in 1994, he was jailed for life after assaulting and murdering a 7-year-old boy. Having lured the boy back to his tower-block home, he assaulted and choked the boy. A postman later discovered the boy's body taped up in bin liners in a lift.
The Independent reported, at the time, that "Hatch told police that after he had simulated sex with Sean, the boy was quite scared and had said 'I just want to go home.' He had started walking towards the window 'obviously to shout for help. But I could not let him go. I held him by the throat. He started struggling. I tightened my grip'. Hatch said he got a plastic bag, put it over Sean's head and suffocated him."
Death
On 22 February 2011, Hatch died in an incident at Full Sutton prison in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Damien Fowkes, a convicted robber also known for the alleged attack of Ian Huntley, is alleged to have held Hatch hostage for up to an hour before strangling him with a noose in a barricaded cell. Fowkes was charged with murder and appeared before Beverley Magistrates Court via video-link on 25 February 2011, but the matter was sent to Hull Crown Court and will be heard on 8 March 2011.
Lynn Williams, 53, mother of victim Sean Williams, said that she felt "numb" over the death of Hatch. Williams' father, John, was "ecstatic" over the killing and stated: "Justice had finally been done."

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