Mark Woolley’s police mugshots from 2001 and 2018. (Image: Met Police / SWNS)
Murderer Mark Woolley, who had fatally driven over Elizabeth Sherlock as she attempted to recover her stolen handbag, has died in prison.
Woolley, aged 58 at the time of his death, died at HMP Wayland last February, as confirmed this week by a report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment back in 2001 for the murder of the 42-year-old costume designer near Euston station.
The chilling case saw Woolley running Mrs Sherlock down with a smile and abandoning the getaway car.
He had also used Mrs Sherlock’s bank card to fund his drug habit with a £100 withdrawal for crack cocaine and heroin immediately after the killing.
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During sentencing, the Recorder of London Michael Hyam gave a scathing judgement: “You killed her by deliberately driving over her at a time when you were eking out a worthless existence by thieving to buy drugs.”
He continued, expressing society’s repulsion at Woolley’s lack of humanity: “Everyone who understands what you did was sickened by it and everyone who has heard or read about it since must have been appalled by your apparent lack of human feeling for the woman who had every right to try and stop you from getting away with her property.”
After serving more than 16 years of his life sentence, Woolley was released on licence in November 2017 but breached his licence conditions when he absconded in February of the subsequent year.
He was subsequently apprehended at an address in Hackney and taken back to prison. The Prison and Probation Ombudsman concluded that the clinical care Woolley received in prison was of a good standard and equivalent to that which he could have expected to receive in the community.He died on February 5 last year.