FREED Death Row prisoner Kenny Richey has moved in with an 18-year-old schoolgirl amid rumours that she is pregnant, it was reported yesterday.
Pictures published in a tabloid newspaper showed the 43-year-old Scot, dressed in trademark black, strolling in an Edinburgh park with his new girlfriend, Louise Keenan.
Richey was released in January after 21 years on America's Death Row after ag
reeing a plea bargain to quash his conviction for killing two-year-old Cynthia Collins, the daughter of a neighbour in Colombus, Ohio.
On his return to Scotland, he underwent a "remarriage" ceremony with ex-wife Wendy Amerud. But that relationship now appears to be over. A friend of Richey's told the newspaper: "Kenny and Louise met seven or eight weeks ago and they moved in together three weeks ago."
The friend claimed Richey said Keenan, a schoolgirl completing her Highers, was pregnant. "Kenny told me she was pregnant, which is why they have moved in together. He has seen the test." Richey moved in with his 63-year-old mother Eileen on his return to Edinburgh. She told the newspaper: "I have not seen or heard from him in weeks and he's not living with me any more."
Amerud, who married and divorced Richey before he was imprisoned, flew to Scotland with him earlier this year in the hope of rekindling their relationship but she returned to the US to go back to work.
Cynthia Collins died in 1986 but charges of murder and arson, which Richey consistently denied, were dropped last year after his lawyers struck a deal leading to his release.
Richey was born in Holland in 1964, the son of Jim Richey, an intelligence officer with the US Air Force, but grew up in Edinburgh. When he was 18 he left for America, moving to Ohio, where his father was working.
After his marriage failed, he moved in with his father, who was living in an apartment complex in Columbus Grove, Ohio, before being found guilty of aggravated murder and sentenced to death.
A man who answered Richey's mobile phone yesterday said: "Kenny is not available for comment on this."
