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The Parole Board has refused to release a paedophile convicted of murdering an 11-year-old boy. Dominic McKilligan was given a life sentence for the 1998 killing of Wesley Neailey in Newcastle. The board has also declined to recommend a transfer to an open prison, citing “insufficient evidence of significant risk reduction”. Wesley’s mother, Elizabeth Neailey, said she was pleased with the decision but fears McKilligan will reapply in two years.
McKilligan was released from Aycliffe Young People’s Centre in County Durham nine months before the murder. He had been sent there after being convicted of a number of sex attacks on young boys in his home town of Bournemouth. Because his sentence was a three-year supervision order, which ended a day before provisions of the 1997 Sex Offenders Act came into force, he was not registered as a sex offender. Previously described as a danger to children in local authority reports, he befriended Wesley before attacking him in the garage of his home on Wingrove Road.
Should he be released in future, McKilligan would not be added to the sex offenders register as his rape conviction was quashed at the High Court in 2000. The Parole Board review was McKilligan’s fourth since his minimum jail term ended in July 2018. A decision summary disclosed that he “accepted he had caused his victim’s death” but maintained his innocence of murder. The board said witnesses agreed there was “insufficient evidence of significant risk reduction at this point”.
Detective Trevor Fordy, who led the case, stated that McKilligan should not be allowed near children, adding “in my view he’s extremely dangerous, and I don’t think his time in prison will have lessened that danger.” A Parole Board spokesperson confirmed that “protecting the public is our number one priority.
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