Gangster had a year to serve when he killed himself in jail

A notorious gangster, once dubbed ‘public enemy number one’, killed himself in his prison cell after medics failed to treat his mental illness, an inquest heard. Wayne Hurren, 57, was also known as ‘John Wayne’ because he always carried two guns and was jailed for 20 years in 1988 for shooting three police officers in an armed robbery. In 1996, he was alleged to have organised three murders using a prison telephone in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight…

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