Chilling words ‘vampire killer’ teen told nurse after he drank pensioner’s blood

A former prison psychiatric nurse has lifted the lid on meeting a sadistic murderer who drank the blood of his elderly neighbour.

Killer Mathew Hardman removed the heart of 90-year-old Mabel Leyshon after stabbing her 22 times at her home in Anglesey in 2001, when he was just 17.

Hardman was just one of the evil criminals Chris Kinealy, 67, treated at Category B Altcourse Prison.

He told the Liverpool Echo he will always remember when he first met the killer teen.

Between 1998 and 2010 Chris worked in the admissions office and dealt with referrals at the facility.

And there was one particular man who walked into his office, which he said he would never be able to forget.

Chris  said: "I was just sat in my little office.

"And this 17-year-old, about 5ft 10, blonde hair and blue eyes walked in.

"He said 'Hello sir are you the doctor?'

"I said I am a psychiatric nurse, how do you feel?

"And he replied with a huge grin on his face 'this is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me'.

"If you had said to me when I was 17-years-old, we are charging you with murder and taking you to a high security prison I would have been in floods of tears asking for my mum.

"But not Hardman.

"This boy had disembowelled an old lady, wrapped her heart in old newspapers and drank her blood, under the mistaken impression that this would make him a vampire and he would live forever.

"He was mistaken."

Chris said during his time in Altcourse there were different types of prisoners some who would play the 'tough defiance act and others 'emotional denial'.

He said: "You would get those who said 'I've got life I don't care' and others who would be saying 'I didn't mean to do it, the voices told me to do it' and then those in denial.

"Hardman never admitted his guilt and even despite the compelling evidence denied ever being in Mrs Leyshon's home.

"The only time I saw him express any emotion, apart from amused indifference, was when he was found guilty.

"I actually went to his cell, because believe it or not I felt sorry for him.

"He was curled up on his bed in the foetal position and he asked me 'do you think I am guilty?'

"And I said to him 'I know you are guilty, everyone knows'.

"He never ever discussed the case."

Chris said working in the role he had he was "constantly disgusted" by the people he came across yet despite the despicable crimes Hardman committed he was not the worst he met.

Author Chris said: "I was asked once who was the most horrible person I came across.

"It was a man called Perry Samuel who sat me down and told me quite calmly how he had strangled his three-year-old son and daughter.

"He held him under the water and said he watched as the bubbles came out of his nose and mouth.

"Then when his five-year-old sister tried to get him to stop he strangled her too.

"That was the only time I felt physically sick in my job."

Chris also recalls treating prisoner Robert Stewart and in his records wrote that the 20-year-old had "a long-standing, deep-seated personality disorder, with a glaring lack of remorse, feeling, insight, foresight or any other emotion."

Stewart later went on to murder his cell mate Zahid Mubarek when he was transferred from Altcourse to the Feltham Young Offenders' Institution in southwest London. 

Despite the horrors of his job, Chris, who has also worked in Walton prison and HM Risley, said there were rewarding moments – his favourite noted as seeing a prisoner on the outside who had turned his life around.

And while the job in itself was physically and mentally draining Chris said it was a "fascinating" profession.

He has even published a book on his time at Altcourse Prison titled 'My Stretch in Altcourse Prison'

Chris, who retired two years ago, added: "It was absolutely fascinating.

"Some of the stories you hear in prison you sit there with a prisoner and they tell you their story and it sounds far fetched but it is not, it is the gods honest truth.

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