Before Russell Bishop died from brain cancer, a test for Covid-19 was done on Babes in Wood.
Following being taken from jail, the murderer was 55 years old and passed away in hospital.
HMP Frankland prison chiefs in Co Durham are looking into whether the man caught it inside.
Since the outbreak began in March 2020, he is the fifth most prominent death in the maximum security jail.
Peter Sutcliffe from Yorkshire, the 74-year-old Yorkshire Ripper, died in November 2020. Anthony Hardy, the Camden Ripper, died last year.
Russell Bishop was a Babes in Wood killer and tested positive to Covid-19. He died of brain cancer in January. After being taken from HMP Frankland in County Durham, the murderer was rushed to hospital.
According to a source, Bishop tested positive for the virus while being treated at hospital.
“He passed away shortly after, making it difficult to determine the impact Covid’s underlying health had on him.
“The prison has been trying to determine if Frankland was the source of his illness, since there are fears that it may spread to others in prison.
Bishop was suffering from severe breathing problems and was rushed to the hospital.
He was alone and was accompanied by two guardians.
The spokesperson from the Prison Service said that Russell Bishop, HMP Frankland’s prisoner, had died at home on January 20, 2019.
In 1986, when Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were just nine years old each, Bishop brutally murdered them both.
Bishop after his first arrest in the 1986 Babes in the Wood murders
“The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman was informed.”
After murdering Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, nine-year-olds in 1986, Bishop escaped prosecution for 32 years.
He was convicted for the famous attack. However, he was able to walk free of court thanks to his many blunders in 1987.
In 2018, DNA evidence showed that he was finally caged. However, it was discovered last year that he had been diagnosed as having bowel cancer.
He was receiving palliative care by October, despite the fact that he had undergone surgery.
Karen’s mother, Michelle Johnson, was seen in 2018 with Nicola and Susan Eismann. She said that the monster had died and she wished her family the same fate.
Her words were echoed by her: “He made us suffer for decades because of his bad actions.” We have endured unimaginable suffering. Above: Karen Johnson with Karen Eismann’s mother and Barrie Fellowes, her father
David Cook, the double murderer, passed away on Christmas Eve, last year, after being tested positive for coronavirus by jail officials.
Following the murder of his neighbour, and Sunday school teacher, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Sutcliffe Hardy, Cook and Cook all were whole-life inmates. All of them had tested positive for Covid-19.
George Naylor, aged 77, was the murderer of two women, 11 years apart. He died in December 2021 after suffering a stroke.