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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Kristian Johnson & Kit Vickery

Woman's 'fantastic wedding day' next to some of Britain's most awful criminals

Most people would struggle to associate a prison with good memories, especially one as notorious as HMP Wakefield.

The site, now horrifyingly known as Monster Mansion, houses some of the most dangerous criminals in the country, with serial killer Harold Shipman, who is believed to have murdered up to 250 people, dying inside the jail in 2004. Paedophile ex-Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, Britain's most dangerous prisoner - known sometimes as Hannibal the Cannibal - Robert Maudsley, and the UK's most sadistic rapist Reynhard Sinaga are all currently locked up inside the disturbing site.

However, for 47-year-old Debbie O'Neill, the prison brings back memories of one of the happiest days of her life, after she held her wedding reception in the prison officer's club on Love Lane 22-year-ago, directly opposite the jail's intimidating walls. "It was literally down the side of the prison," she told YorkshireLive.

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