BUNGLING prison chiefs wrongly told a woman her jailed husband was dead after they mistook him for a serial killer.
They only realised that she was not married to the Camden Ripper when cops called to check.
Triple killer Anthony Hardy, 69, died of Covid in 2020 while serving a whole life sentence.
Staff at Frankland Prison in Co Durham could not reach his family by phone so asked police to break the news.
But they sent officers to the home of a woman married to another prisoner with the same surname.