Published at 14:12, Thursday, 21 June 2012

A prisoner today admitted murdering a child rapist in his cell at a top security jail.

Mitchell Dean Harrison

Mitchell Harrison, 23, was serving an indefinite sentence at Frankland Prison, Durham, for raping a 13-year-old girl when he was killed last October.

Michael Parr, 32, pleaded guilty to murder during a brief hearing at Newcastle Crown Court via videolink from prison.

He will be sentenced on July 12.

Nathan Mann, 23, is also charged with Harrison’s murder but he did not appear before the court.

Harrison, who had lived in Cockermouth and Whitehaven but had been living in Wolverhampton, was jailed in January 2010 for raping the girl in Kendal in 2009.

He was jailed at Carlisle Crown Court indefinitely and was put on the sex offenders’ register for life.

After his murder, Harrison’s family released a statement saying: “Although we never condoned his past actions, he was serving his time and was by all accounts a model, trusted prisoner who did not deserve to die in this horrific way.”

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