B road moor frees triple killer after 16 years on run

A TRIPLE killer has been released from Broadmoor top security hospital five months after being recaptured. He had spent 16 years on the run. Alan Reeve, 49, has re - turned to Cork, where he is living with the mother of his young son. He was arrested in the city last year after British police served an extradition warrant over his escape from Broadmoor in 1981. He had killed.a 15-year-old boy, throt - tled a fellow . patient and, while on the run, shot dead a Dutch police officer. Reeve had been living in the Irish Republic for more than two years before his arrest and was employed as a typesetter and editor with the Cork

Women's Poetry Circle. He met Anne Murphy while in the city. The couple had a son and became engaged only months before his arrest last April. Within months of his return to Broadmoor, psychiatrists went to Cork to meet his former neighbours in the north of the city to ascertain their reaction if he were re - leased into their community. Reeve was released three months ago to rejoin Miss Murphy and his son, Alan Jordan, and her two children, David, 16, and Eoin, 10. The couple plan to marry this year. A neighbour and friend said: "It appears many people feel that Reeve was a model citizen when he was living in Cork. He and Anne, who is very well liked, appear to be a