Cop Killer Free Man

Fri, 19 March 2010 Courtesy of: Sun Online

Police killer Egon Von Bulow has tasted his first full day of freedom in 36 years.

With hands in pockets and wearing a beanie hat, the 63-year-old lifer - who shot three officers, one fatally - mingled with shoppers in London.

Von Bulow was let out on Tuesday despite reports he has a "severe personality disorder".

“ jailed for life for shooting dead unarmed PC John Schofield, 27, in Caterham, Surrey, on July 6, 1974.”

He is thought to be the first cop murderer ever released in Britain.

Von Bulow was taken to a bail hostel in a residential street in Tulse Hill, South London, and can come and go as he likes.

The Police Federation said he had "never admitted his crimes or shown any remorse" and blasted the decision to free him.

Yesterday, he left at 8am and got on a bus packed with commuters.

He sat near mums with kids on a seven-mile, hour-long trip to Baker Street, Central London.

He got off outside Madame Tussauds and went into four phone boxes before making a long call from a fifth.

Von Bulow, who also wore a body-warmer and turn-up jeans, then vanished among the crowds.

He was jailed for life for shooting dead unarmed PC John Schofield, 27, in Caterham, Surrey, on July 6, 1974.

He also shot PC Ray Fullalove in the stomach and Sgt Harley Findlay whose pocket-book deflected the bullet, sparing him serious injury.

It happened at 3.50am after they drew alongside Von Bulow in a police car as he walked along a street with a holdall.

Von Bulow, whose father was German, was dubbed the Jackboot Killer because of his obsession with Nazis.

He got three life sentences in 1975. In 1983, he tried to kill Moors Murderer Ian Brady in a psychiatric unit.

Sources say that in his latest psychiatric assessment he was said to have a personality disorder, but the Parole Board chose to release him.

He was freed from Ford Open Prison, West Sussex.