A brutal killer’s online blog, in which he brags of his happy love life, cannot be prevented, the Ministry of Justice has said after an investigation.

David Ferguson is serving a life sentence for the murder of Susan Kent. The mother-of-two was found stabbed to death at her home in Birch Grove, Hempstead, on November 24, 1999.

But in September it emerged that his crimes had not deterred his new love Carol Nash and the pair got married at HMP Wakefield, West Yorkshire, at the end of August.

Ferguson wrote about his happiness on a blog, which is used primarily to publicly maintain his innocence and is written in the first person.

The 45-year-old also announced the date of his marriage on the site, and news of his proposal in 2013 in which he wrote: “I proposed to my beautiful partner Carol and I am very proud to say that she said ‘yes’. We are both blissfully happy.”

MP for Gillingham and Rainham Rehman Chishti, took issue with the site and asked the MOJ to investigate. He said: “Such comments published on the prisoner’s blog can be extremely distressing to the victim’s family.

"I do acknowledge and sympathise, that a blog of this nature have the potential to cause distress to victims and their families... Unfortunately we are not able to prevent third parties setting up blogs on a prisoner’s behalf." - Andrew Selous

“The government has a clear policy banning prisoners’ accessing social networking sites. There should be greater clarity on what material prisoners are allowed to publish.”

Andrew Selous, the minister responsible for prisons, has now responded to Mr Chishti’s inquiry but said there is nothing the prison service can do to stop the posts.

He said: “I do acknowledge and sympathise, that a blog of this nature have the potential to cause distress to victims and their families.

“Our position is clear and remains that prisoners are not permitted direct access to the internet including blogs. Unfortunately we are not able to prevent third parties, such as family members and friends, setting up blogs on a prisoner’s behalf.

“There is no indication that Mr Ferguson has a direct involvement with the blog, although it is possible he could be providing updates via the third party running the blog in the form of direct contact with them.”

In a recent update to his blog Ferguson said his wife had been “verbally attacked by online trolls” since people found out about the wedding, which neither his nor her families attended.

In two reviews since he was jailed, prison boards found that Ferguson was “highly dangerous” and should be kept as a top security prisoner but Carol is already looking towards a release date for her new husband and commented on his blog: “I will be waiting at those gates, ready to begin our ‘Happy Ever After’.”

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