A paedophile who abused four children and left one in "hell and purgatory" has died while serving his sentence. David Almond, 80, died from brain cancer in a hospice on September 14, 2024, while serving a sentence for sexual offences at HMP Liverpool , a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) report into his death confirmed. Almond, of Greasby, Wirral, was jailed for 12 years on February 21, 2020 for sex crimes against four victims, all under the age of 14 in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also