A woman has been left shaken after receiving what appeared to be an unsolicited call from convicted mass-murderer Jeremy Bamber.
The terrified woman regularly speaks with HMP Full Sutton inmate and Hull murderer Phillip Simmons, but said that she was too petrified to answer the phone when Jeremy Bamber's name inexplicably flashed up on her caller ID.
The incident is made all the more perplexing by the fact that the woman didn't even have Bamber's number saved in her phone and had to Google his name before she realised who he was.
She contacted the prison to check whether there might have been a security breach but was instructed to report it to the police if she was concerned.
"Usually when he (Simmons) calls I just get a phone number come up on my screen, and underneath it says Pocklington so I know it's him," she told the Hull Daily Mail.
"I have never saved the number into my phone so that is why it just comes up as a number.
"On Sunday, though, when the phone rang I looked on the screen and it said 'Jeremy Bamber'."
Bamber was convicted in October 1986 of the murder of his adoptive parents, along with his adoptive sister and her six-year-old twin sons.
The prosecution found that, after committing the murders to secure a large inheritance, Bamber had put the gun he'd used to kill his family in the hands of his 28-year-old sister, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, to make it look like a murder-suicide.
He is currently serving life imprisonment, without a chance of parole.
"I just started shaking when I saw the name on my phone for a second time," the woman said.
"I could not believe it. I don't know how that man's name could possibly come up on my phone. I thought that only happens when you have a number saved.
"I got in touch with the prison in case there had been a breach of security or something, but they told me if I was concerned I should report it to the police."
Simmons was jailed for a minimum of 36 years after pleading guilty to the murders of his housemate Daniel Hatfield and friend Matthew Higgins.
The bodies of Hatfield, 52, and Higgins, 49, were found in a garden in May Street, Hull, on 22 April 2016.
"Daniel and Matthew were no threat to Phillip Simmons, a brutal, vicious and violent man," said Detective Chief Inspector Tony Cockerill at the time.
"He murdered them, one after the other, using astonishing levels of violence and determination.
"This has been a dreadful loss to those who cared for Daniel and Matthew and I hope this sentence will bring some closure for them."
Featured Image Credit: PATopics: uk news