Dale Cregan, who killed two female police officers, was taken to Aintree University Hospital on Merseyside from prison on December 1 with a reportedly heavy police presence Dale Cregan was taken to hospital from prison

Cop killer Dale Cregan, who killed two female police officers, was transferred from prison to hospital in a high-security operation that saw a heavy police presence deployed in the dead of night.

Images show officers outside Aintree University Hospital on Merseyside after he was taken there for an apparently pre-arranged appointment on Monday (December 1)

Cregan was jailed for life for the murders of David Short, 46, and son Mark, 23, and of policewomen Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, in a horrifying gun and grenade attack in 2012.

In a statement Merseyside

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