Children of murdered mum want explanation how sex beast was allowed to kill

A GRIEVING daughter whose mum was murdered in the home of a Scots sex beast is demanding answers after the fugitive sicko turned up dead.

Tania Jackson, 40, was relieved to learn the body of evil Richard Scatchard, 70, was located in a caravan while he was being hunted over the death of ex Kelly Faiers, 61.

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Scatchard, originally from Newton Mearns, near Glasgow, was wanted by murder cops over Kelly’s suspicious death in October last year.

He was the subject of a nationwide appeal warning the public not to approach the “high risk offender” who was out on licence when he met mum-of-four Kelly through a dating site.

The six-month-long manhunt ended when the fiend’s corpse turned up seven miles away from Minehead, Somerset, where Kelly was killed.

Mum-of-two Tania, of Nailsea, remains aghast at how cops handled the initial call-out which saw Scatchard flee the next day.

She said: “He was on life licence but his address didn’t flag anything when the ambulance was called.

“The police sat with him for six hours to wait for the coroner and still nothing twigged.

“They may as well have bid him good day, have a lovely life because he just walked off.

“A condition of his licence was that he was supposed to tell the parole board if he was in a relationship but he didn’t – and then they found my mum dead in his flat.”

Scatchard bolted the day after he summoned a mercy crew to his Blenheim Road property in the early hours of October 15 last year.

He had spent the previous night out with Kelly, from Weston-super-Mare, before he raised the alarm to say she was critically ill.

Police also attended the emergency call and spoke to Scatchard who had a string of disturbing offences against his name.

In 2000, he was convicted of drugging women and sexually assaulting them.

He went to prison and was released in 2013, initially into the Cheshire area, and he then moved to Minehead in September 2020.

It is understood he was also wanted for recall to prison for a licence breach for failing to inform authorities of his relationship with women.

But despite that cops left Scatchard before returning the following day to discover he had gone awol, sparking a massive manhunt, with an appeal on the BBC’s Crimewatch.

He was finally discovered dead in a caravan in Watchet, Somerset, last Thursday (APRIL 4) by the horrified owner Nicky Kieley-Shier, 66, from Taunton.

She said: “I’m going to be having some counselling.

“That poor family. They’re not going to have any sort of justice are they, apart from he looked like he might have suffered.”

Tania last night said the caravan owner was the latest in a long line of victims to be swept up in Scatchard’s “trail of devastation”.

She said: “It is a relief that he is dead but it’s unfortunate that we won’t be able to face him and ask questions.

“However the way he has acted all through his life is to be in control.

“He has taken control again and not only has he hurt us and our mum, you’ve got to think of his previous victims.

“The lady that found him in her caravan because that must have been the most traumatic thing ever and even his own family.

“He has left behind a trail of devastation and there are so many unanswered questions.”

In December, Tania and her siblings Laurie Perry, Jazmin Faiers and Mike Faiers made a complaint about Avon and Somerset Police’s response to their mum’s death to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

The following month the force referred itself to the watchdog which is now investigating their handling of the matter.

Det Supt Gary Haskins, of the Major Crime Investigation Team, said: “We have now informed both families that the body recovered has been confirmed as Scatchard.”

His death is not being treated as suspicious.