High Court Names Child Killer The High Court has overturned an order granting anonymity to a notorious prisoner who brutally murdered three children in 1973. The convict, who was dubbed the "Monster of Worcester," can now be publicly revealed as David McGreavy, who impaled the bodies of his victims on spiked garden railings. McGreavy, 62, was jailed for life in 1973 for the "exceptionally horrific crimes," which he committed while babysitting at a house in Gillam Street, Worcester. Paul Ralph, four, was strangled while his two-year-old sister Dawn was found with her throat cut. Their nine-month-old sister Samantha died from a compound fracture to the skull. McGreavy - who was lodging with the children's parents at the time - is one of the country's most notorious and longest-serving prisoners. The gagging order was made in response to fears that the killer's own life was in danger. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and media organisations argued it was legally flawed and wrongly prevented the public from knowing the full facts of the case. "The full facts are exceptionally horrific by even the standard of murders," said their counsel, Guy Vassall-Adams. The order restricted the media to saying they were "three sadistic murders - but that doesn't even give you the half of it," said Mr Vassall-Adams. Even "the nature of the victims" could not be publicised, he said. "Understanding the nature of the victims and the terrible treatment meted out to them gives a completely different complexion to this whole case," Mr Vassall-Adams said. He told the judges that the lawyers of McGreavy, referred to as "M," were arguing the case was about "whether the media should be allowed to imperil (M's) life or scupper his chances of rehabilitation." He said those arguments really applied to a different type of case in which individuals - like Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who killed James Bulger - were provided with a new identity and there were injunctions against the media aimed at protecting them from being attacked while living in the community. The injunction protects confidential information, which is the new identities. It doesn't prevent the media reporting what is already public," said Mr Vassall-Adams. M had already been in prison 40 years serving multiple life sentences and there was no imminent prospect of him being released - "furthermore his identity has not only been public but received massive previous publicity." Anyone interested in finding out about his crimes could do so by a click of a button on the internet, Mr Vassall-Adams said. Not allowing the nature of his victims to be identified "masked" what the case was about, which was the Parole Board's refusal to recommend that he was fit for open conditions. Lord Justice Pitchford, sitting in London with Mr Justice Simon, ruled the anonymity order must be discharged. Lord Pitchford said the course adopted by McGreavy's legal advisers when applying for anonymity was "wrong," adding it had been "frankly accepted by them." The victims were the children of Dorothy Urry, who now lives in Andover, Hampshire.