{"id":315426,"date":"2025-12-14T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315426\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:39:16","slug":"killers-and-perverts-enjoy-taxpayer-funded-christmas-party-with-prison-chiefs-its-a-slap-in-the-face-to-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315426\/","title":{"rendered":"Killers and perverts enjoy taxpayer-funded Christmas party with prison chiefs: \u2018It\u2019s a slap in the face to victims\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Senior civil servants tucked into turkey with depraved offenders at NI\u2019s only open jail\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Burren House. Inset bottom left: Director of prisons David Kennedy and director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Beverley Wall. &#10;&#10;Inset right top to bottom: Serial sex attacker Tom Ward, glued lips killer Adrian Hayes and cut-throat murderer Andrew Robinson.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6898a0af-ece3-4676-82e7-c1f75c2bd793.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Burren House. Inset bottom left: Director of prisons David Kennedy and director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Beverley Wall. <\/p>\n<p>Inset right top to bottom: Serial sex attacker Tom Ward, glued lips killer Adrian Hayes and cut-throat murderer Andrew Robinson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Murderers and sex offenders enjoyed a taxpayer-funded Christmas party with the top civil servants responsible for running Northern Ireland\u2019s jails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The get-together in the Burren House open prison that saw director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service Beverley Wall enjoy a turkey dinner with 20 lifers including glued lips killer Adrian Hayes, cut-throat murderer Andy Robinson and sex predator Tom Ward, has been branded \u201ctone deaf\u201d by staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Senior civil servants tucked into turkey with depraved offenders at NI\u2019s only open jail Burren House. Inset&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[121293,125283,96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-315426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ciaran-barnes","tag-doug-beattie","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}