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Prisoners will not receive preferential treatment for Vaccine for COVID-19the Justice Ministry has said, amid reports inviting serial killer Levi Bellfield for his coronavirus prick.
More than So far 6.3 million vaccines have been administered in the UK, with 5.9 million of these first doses, with the over 70s, health and social care workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable at the top of the priority list.
Sun reported that Bellfield, serving two life warrants for the murders of Marsha McDonnell, Amelie Delagrange and Milly Dowler, has told him that he and other inmates at Frankland County Durham Prison could be vaccinated in the coming weeks.
The priority for vaccines has been determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, and all people over the age of 70 and the clinically extremely vulnerable have planned to receive a first dose by February 15.
The Justice Ministry tweeted: “The NHS has a legal obligation to vaccinate prisoners in eligible cohorts, such as those over 80, according to the guidelines. Inmates will not receive the vaccine before their cohort.
“To suggest that prisoners are being treated differently from the general public is completely untrue.”
Bellfield, 52, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Ms McDonnell, 19, in 2003, and murdering Ms Delagrange, 22, and attempting to murder Kate Sheedy, 18, in 2004.
He was already serving this sentence when he was charged with killing Milly, who was abducted from the street on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002.
Bellfield was convicted of kidnapping and killing the 13-year-old boy after a trial at the Old Bailey in 2011.
