Dale Cregan has gone on hunger strike in prison in a bid to be moved closer to his family, it emerged today.
The one-eyed gangster is serving a life sentence at HMP Full Sutton, near York, for killing four people including two police officers.
He is now refusing to eat, apparently because he wants to be transferred to Strangeways prison in Manchester, near to where his family lives.
Cregan, 30, is said to have started his hunger strike in protest at being kept in segregation for his own safety.
Jonathan Reynolds, MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, hit out against the killer and said he was obsessed with getting the attention of the public.
'Dale Cregan deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison and how he is held is a matter for the prison authorities,' he said.
