Double killer freed from secure unit
A murderer who killed two people in a house less than 20 years ago has been released.
Psychiatric patient Andrew Cole murdered William Crompton and Fiona Ovis in a frenzied knife attack in which they were stabbed 90 times at her grandmother's house in Llandrindod Wells in May 1996.
Cole, who was 26 at the time and is originally from Llandrindod Wells, has now been released from a secure psychiatric unit.
Cole was given two life sentences in 1997 for the murders of ex-girlfriend Fiona Ovis, 28, and Mr Crompton, 18, in Llandrindod Wells, Powys.
Miss Ovis had been stabbed 52 times and sexually mutilated. Mr Crompton suffered 38 stab wounds.
Cole refused to accept that doctor's daughter Miss Ovis had dumped him.
Enraged, he followed the couple to the home of Miss Ovis's grandmother in Llandrindod Wells.
In his rucksack were petrol, matches, a kitchen knife, rope, gloves, torch, a microphone and tape recorder.
When he thought he heard the pair having sex via a microphone he had posted through a letterbox, he smashed through the bedroom window and murdered the pair in bed.
He then drove to Llandrindod Wells Hospital where he admitted what he had done.
The killings happened less than 30 hours after Cole had been released from psychiatric care.
The double murder was one of the worst police in Wales have ever witnessed.
Cole admitted the killings and told authorities he would kill again if he was ever freed.
Crompton's family fought to stop him being released but after a tribunal ruling Cole was freed last Tuesday.
Cole had had a difficult relationship with his mother almost since birth and was effectively brought up by his grandmother.
He led a reclusive lifestyle and had barricaded himself in his room until he was compulsorily admitted to the former Mid Wales psychiatric hospital at Talgarth, where he met Ms Ovis, who was also a patient.
She had been his first real female friend but he was unable to accept her relationship with Mr Crompton.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "Offenders released on licence are subject to strict controls and if these are breached they can be recalled to custody."
