A paedophile died in prison just months into his 15 year sentence after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, which left him "choking and struggling to breathe".
It was the third time former scout master Ronald Curran had been jailed for abusing children. The 83-year-old was said to have used dogs and ice cream to "trap" children before abusing them.
Victims told a court how he'd ruined their childhoods, while one cried himself to sleep. Curran was jailed at Newcastle Crown Court last year, reports Chronicle Live.
Within nine days of arriving at the prison, he visited the HMP Durham GP with left shoulder pain, as well as "trouble controlling his bowels". By May, a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report reveals that Curran "was seen