Manhunt launched after infamous child killer John Clifford goes on the run from prison
Police are on the lookout for an infamous child killer in Northern Ireland who is unlawfully at large after he failed to go back to Maghaberry Prison. Relatives of his victims had warned the authorities that he should never be freed but now their worst fears have been confirmed. 56-year-old John Clifford, a murderer who currently uses a mobility scooter, was released from the Burren House on Crumlin House on September 2 to go for an appointment but then just never went back. Burren House is a unit of Maghaberry Prison and it is a housing for prisoners before their long jail sentences come to an end. The man had raped and strangled and killed Sue Ellen Clifford, his niece before he abandoned her body at a deserted railway line in 1988. The elderly man was released in 2005 but was sent back to prison in 2007 because he broke the terms of his probation.