Brian Field, an 87-year-old paedophile who murdered 14-year-old Roy Tutill in 1968, has died in prison in February at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire. Field was jailed for life in 2001 for the murder of Roy Tutill. The department said the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will carry out an investigation as is procedure with all deaths in custody.
Roy, 14, was sexually assaulted and killed after accepting a lift from Field. More than 30 years after Roy was murdered, police linked Field to the murder when a sample of his DNA was fed into a national police computer system after he was stopped during a routine drink-driving test.
Field was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in November 2001. After his imprisonment, Field was questioned by police regarding several other unsolved cases including that of David Spencer, 13, and Patrick Warren, 11, who went missing from the Chelmsley Wood area of Birmingham on Boxing Day 1996, and Mark Billington, who was found dead in a woodland a few miles from where Field lived in Solihull in 1984.
