A pair of killer paedophiles have failed in a court bid to allow them to phone each other in different jails. Charles O'Neill and William Lauchlan – who are serving life sentences for the gruesome murder of a mum who threatened to report them for abusing kids – had been allowed to call each other until 2018.
But after prison chiefs stopped the unsavoury calls, the twisted pair launched expensive legal action, claiming their human rights had been breached.
Earlier this year a judicial review by O'Neill, 57, and Lauchlan, 44, failed.Edinburgh's Court of Sessions threw the initial claim out because a judge, known as the Lord Ordinary, ruled they had failed to raise the action in time.And now the Court of Session has thrown out their appeal
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