Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale lands cushy transfer back to Broadmoor hitting taxpayers with a £250k-a-year bill
The Woolwich murderer has been transferred after refusing to comply with medical treatment in jail
LEE Rigby killer Michael Adebowale will hit taxpayers with a £250,000-a-year bill after landing a cushy transfer BACK to Broadmoor from jail.
The Woolwich murderer, 25, has been held in a tough prison dubbed “Monster Mansion” since medics ruled him “bad not mad” in September 2015.
At the time Lee’s mum Lyn said she was “delighted” at the end of his “gentler life” in psychiatric hospital.
But now Adebowale has left the prison system again after justice chiefs rubber-stamped the switch last month.
Sources say Adebowale has refused to comply with medical treatment while in Wakefield jail, West Yorks, leaving officials no choice.
Adebowale, who once claimed to hear voices, made the 210-mile drive south to Broadmoor, in Crowthorne, Berks, in the past few days.
And he now has access to the kind of cushy life serving cons can only dream of.
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Last night there were fears Adebowale, who was given a 45-year minimum jail term for the atrocity, was playing the system for his own ends.
Lee’s grieving mum Lyn, 50, blasted: “I’ve said before that Adebowale deserves to be in a tough prison for what he did to my Lee.
“I get the impression this whole situation is going to yo-yo back and forth for years because the authorities clearly don’t know how to deal with him.
“I need to be reassured that the right punishment is being handed down to the man who took my son’s life.
“I can’t live with the thought he is slipping through a loophole to get out of proper jail time for what he did to my boy.”
The cost of treating a patient in Broadmoor is five times the £50,000 cost of holding a category A prisoner in jail.
The hospital’s regime is also notoriously easier than life as an inmate.
Last year Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe whined about how his switch from Broadmoor to Durham’s Frankland jail had put paid to his perks.
He lost the right to several visits a week, access to TV and DVD players and even the ability to receive emails.
He moaned: “Category A prisons are a pit of black despair and hopelessness.
“I’ll spend the rest of my days there. Why should I carry on?”
A source told The Sun: “Cat A offenders know a switch to a secure hospital is a ticket to an easier life.
“The regime is kinder, the surroundings are gentler and you don’t have to watch your back as much."
Adebowale converted to Islam aged 19 and later fell in thrall to accomplice Michael Adebolajo, now 32.
The pair ran over Fusilier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich army barracks in May 2013 before hacking him to death.
Adebolajo was later given a whole life sentence.