The killer bodybuilder attacked by Kiaran Stapleton in Strangeways - and his notorious dad dubbed 'UK's hardest lag'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukInterviewed for the Strangeways ITV documentary, killer bodybuilder Michael Sharp painted a bleak picture of life inside Manchester's notorious prison. "There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, so there's a lot of stabbings, a lot of slashings, people boiling up tubs of butter, turning it into oil, throwing that over the faces, over the body, they don't care what they do," he said.
Sharp was just 25-years-old when he was jailed for life for murdering ex-policeman David Ward in a brutal robbery at his West Yorkshire home. Read more: Dale Cregan took my beloved daughter's life - she stopped me taking my own from beyond the grave But violence ran in the family.
He'd grown up in the shadow of a notorious dad - ex-heavyweight boxer and alcoholic Paul Sykes. Once dubbed the the UK's 'hardest lag', Sykes spent much of his adult life behind bars.
He came to prominence in the cult documentary, Paul Sykes: At Large, before succumbing to alcoholism and a pitiful death aged 60.
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