Michael Sams

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Michael Sams (b. 1941) is a one-legged English rapist, kidnapper and extortionist murderer who kidnapped Julie Dart and Stephanie Slater.[1][2]

He murdered Dart in 1989 and abducted Slater in 1991. In 1992, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Full Sutton Prison. He is known to be serving four life sentences. His minimum term has never been made public, though he is still behind bars 15 years after his arrest.

Since going to prison he has continued to offend, attacking a female probation officer with a metal spike. He received a addition of eight years to his term for this act. [3]

In addition he has won £4000 (approx. $USD 7,867.0001) damages when the prison service lost his artificial limb when moving him from one prison to another. He is one of several convicted kidnappers and murderers whose name has been mentioned in connection with the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh, who vanished from London in July 1986 and is believed to have been murdered.

He also attempted to sue Slater for libel claiming that he never raped her. He has also brought a civil case because he thinks that his prison bed is too hard.[4][5]

[edit] Trivia

• Sams was a competitive middle distance runner before contracting the disease that caused him to lose his leg.
• Sams had been arrested before becoming a kidnapper and extortionist, on car theft charges during the 1980s.