A Chester man’s calculating killer has been told he must die in jail.
Cinema owner Peter Moore murdered Keith Randles in his caravan by stabbing him 12 times.
He was the second of four victims who were brutally killed in the space of three months in 1995.
A European Court of Human Rights ruling decided whole-life prison sentences were lawful - ending Moore’s hopes of ever being released.
Former Detective Constable Dave Morris said: “He was a very dangerous man, one of the most dangerous men I ever met in my time as a police officer.”
The Bagillt cinema owner was dubbed ‘the man in black’ as he liked to wear black leather.
Depraved Moore, now 76, also took the lives John Henry Roberts, Edward Carthy and Tony Davies.
Mr Randles, of Tarvin Road, Chester was described as ‘an ordinary, harmless, conscientious man who had a reputation for shy good humour’.
The security manager was living in a caravan on construction site near Llangefni alongside the A5 at the time of the attack.
He was last seen alive at a fish and chip shop at about 9.30pm on November 29, 1995.
Workmen found Mr Randles’s body outside his caravan at 7.30am the next morning.
Remorseless Moore later said to police he told his victim he was attacking him for fun.
A jury of eight men and four women took two hours thirty-five minutes to find the serial killer guilty of four counts of murder at Mold Crown Court in November 1996.
Jailing him Mr Justice Maurice Kay recommended Moore, formerly of Kinmel Bay, spent the rest of his life behind bars.
He said: ”You were responsible for four sadistic murders in the space of three months. None of the victims had done you the slightest bit of harm.
”At no stage have you shown the slightest remorse or regret for the killings. Nor for the 20 years of terror and violence that preceded them. I consider you to be as dangerous a man as it is possible to find.
“I shall have to report to the Secretary of State, advising him of my view as to the earliest date that you should be considered for release.
“I don’t want you or anybody else to be in the slightest doubt as to what I shall say. In a word: Never.”
Triple killer Arthur Hutchinson had claimed his whole-life term was a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
A panel of judges at the European Court voted 14 to 3 such sentences were not inhumane and degrading.
The decision set a precedent for dangerous killers, including Moore, who might have hoped to win their freedom.
