Covid was a serial rapist that abused 7 teenage girls and young women over 25-years. A judge accused him of making sex crimes “his life’s work”. He died at 70 years old after being caught by Covid.
Dennis Smalley sexually abuse four girls while raping seven teenager girls.
Smalley is from Hindley in Wigan and had previously attacked one woman after having a child.
He raped and sexually assaulted one woman for over a decade. Many of his victims were teenagers.
Some victims were sexually abused and some were subject to psychological trauma from the abuse.
Smalley, 65 years old, was sentenced on March 2016 to 25 year imprisonment in HMP Wakefield at Liverpool Crown Court for various depraved offenses.
A jury found him guilty of 44 counts: 25 rapes; 16 counts each of indecent assault and indecency, with children, as well as two sexual offenses.
Dennis Smalley, (pictured), sexually abusing four girls while raping seventeen girls and women in their twenties, during a campaign that lasted 45 years
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman published Monday a report confirming his death. This Ombudsman conducts independent investigations into all complaints and deaths while in custody.
Smalley, a high-security prisoner at HMP Wakefield and suffering from Covid pneumonia, was reported to have died on March 16.
Also, it states that Smalley did not leave Wakefield – nicknamed “Monster Mansion” – during the week before becoming ill. It is also stated that Smalley allegedly caught Covid-19 at prison.
Investigators found that Smalley was infected and that there were appropriate policies in place.
Senior detective, who claimed that the ex-military bandman left a “trail of destruction” through the lives 11 of his victims led the investigation.
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman published an official report on Monday confirming the death of Smalley. He died from Covid pneumonia at HMP Wakefield (pictured), on Monday, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman reported.
After his sentencing hearing in 2016, Detective Constable Claire Hughes said: ‘I have had the displeasure of dealing with some truly repugnant individuals during my time with Greater Manchester Police, but Dennis Smalley is without doubt one of the worst I have ever encountered.
“He seems incapable of inflicting any other kind of misery on the poor women and girls that he met during his lifetime.
It is impossible to undo the damage that this man has done in so many lives of women and young girls.
“But, I hope they can find some comfort in knowing that this monster has been put behind bars and will remain there for the remainder of his life.”
Smalley first listened to the advice of staff in prison about protecting against coronavirus 2020.
On February 25, he was first injected. He tested positive the next day, March 2.
Smalley was sentenced at 65 to 25 years imprisonment in HMP Wakefield, Liverpool Crown Court (pictured), for various depraved offences
The condition of his body deteriorated, and he was taken into hospital on March 11th. He died five days later.
The report says: ‘The clinical reviewer concluded that Mr Smalley’s clinical care at Wakefield was of a good standard and equivalent to that which he could have expected in the community.
We found no other non-clinical problems of concern.
“Mr Smalley hadn’t left Wakefield during the week before becoming ill. It appears that he was incarcerated for COVID-19.”
Smalley, the 26th Wakefield prisoner to be executed since March 2019, was also known as
The report states that two of the victims were self-inflicted while the other was caused by natural causes.