(The most notorious thief in MMA history chats cageside with Lee Murray.)
Lee Murray just can’t leave well enough alone. The former UFC/Cage Rage fighter and cash-heist mastermind has been in a Moroccan prison since 2006 after first being locked up on drug-possession charges, and is currently serving a 25-year sentence for his role in the Securitas kidnapping and robbery. Since then, we’ve heard stories of an escape attempt and the discovery of drugs and a laptop computer in his cell, but this shit right here takes the cake:
The cage-fighting crime boss behind the £53m Securitas heist has been moved to a high-security unit and stripped of prison luxuries. It comes after the Sunday Mirror revealed that Lee Murray, who is behind bars in Morocco on drug charges, fathered a child behind bars. Prison chiefs were furious after learning that he flouted rules by sleeping with a woman visitor who was not his wife.
Murray, 32, was moved to a tougher unit of Kenitra prison, near Rabat, and his mobile phone, television and DVDs were confiscated. It is believed that his right to have visitors has also been withdrawn…
He fathered his 16-month-old son sometime around January 2010. Under Moroccan law, conjugal visits, where inmates can spend private time with their spouses, are often rewarded “unofficially” to inmates for good behaviour. But they must prove they are married…Murray and the mother of his child were not.
I gotta say, I feel terrible for that kid. It’s bad enough being conceived and born out of wedlock. But being the son of a guy who was actually in prison when he knocked your mom up? That makes you a double-bastard, and your mother a whore. Good times.