Woman-hating killer complains that he cannot get a decent cup of tea in jail as he serves life

• David Ferguson, 53, was found guilty of the murder of Susan Kent in 2000 

A woman-hating killer has complained that he cannot get a decent cup of tea in jail as he serves life behind bars for handcuffing his ex-partner to a bed and slitting her throat.

David Ferguson, 53, who is banged up in HMP Wakefield with some of Britain’s most notorious killers, complained the maximum security prison was ‘miserable’ and the showers were ‘cold’.

The killer, who was jailed for life in 2000 after handcuffing Susan Kent, 33, to a bed and sexually assaulting her before slitting her throat, rattled off a series of complaints in a letter to lags’ mag Inside Time.

In 1999, Maidstone Crown Court heard how sex-obsessed Ferguson stabbed the divorced mother-of-two 10 times as he acted out a rape fantasy.

He then cut her throat and left her to die cuffed to the bed at her home in Gillingham, Kent.

During his trial it emerged that the depraved killer had been trying to set up a ‘rape club’ on the internet and described women as ‘pieces of meat’.

When DNA linked him to the murder, he was handed a minimum 20-year term.

The former print worker still maintains his innocence and was due for parole recently, but it is believed to have been refused because he still denies the murder.

Writing from his cell at HMP Wakefield – dubbed the Monster Mansion – Ferguson said the water boilers on each landing, used by prisoners to makes cups of tea and coffee has not worked properly for years.

He said the prison was ‘crumbling’ and that the heating system was knackered, meaning either showers weren’t working or were freezing cold.

He penned: ‘Here at Wakefield the heating system has been broken for six years.

‘On D-wing, four out of 16 showers have not worked for over five years – showers have black mould growing up the walls.’

He added: ‘Water boilers for drinks have not been repaired for over five years. Similar failures of basic maintenance can be found on every wing.’

The murder also whinged that prison guards ‘showed off’ to lags by wandering the corridors slurping barista-made frothy lattes.

He said ‘Frothy coffee for you, no water for us’, adding: ‘We have to rely on hot water boilers on the landing in order to fill our flasks.

‘These regularly break down and when they do they are often left in a state of disrepair for weeks, and sometimes for months on end.

‘This leaves prisoners with no hot water for drinks.

‘Despite this, HMP Wakefield’s governor has spend part of the prison budget on a coffee car (a proper Baristas) for staff in the centre of the main residential unit.’

He said that before the government built more prisons they should ‘address the abysmal conditions’ in current jails.

The killer wrote: ‘Before existing prisons are expanded and new prisons built to warehouse yet more human misery, the government should address the abysmal conditions in currently existing jails.’

In 2015, the killer married his girlfriend Carl Nash behind bars, having proposed to her two years earlier.

The Daily Star reported the pair enjoyed a wedding complete with a buffet, flowers and wedding cake at the ceremony at HMP Wakefield. 

He said that the prison management had been ‘obstructional as they possibly could be’ in helping the ceremony, which was attended by five people, go ahead.