THE mother of a murdered Barrowford nurse says she is ‘not surprised’ at footage revealing his lack of remorse from inside his prison cell.

Jonathan Vass was filmed for ITV1 documentary Strangeways and appeared briefly speaking about his victim Jane Clough, 26, who he stabbed to death last July.

In the show, which reveals life inside one of the country’s most notorious maximum security prisons, Vass was seen reading newspaper coverage of his brutal crime.

He said: “I miss her, I feel empty but I hate her, I hate her so much.”

A prison nurse said: “He has said he has no victim empathy whatsoever - he blames her.”

Penny Clough watched the show because she wanted to see whether Vass was being punished for knifing her daughter to death after Jane alleged that her bullying ex-boyfriend raped her while pregnant with his daughter.

Mrs Clough said: “I had been told beforehand about it by the producer and was told it showed him in a despicable light.

“I wrote to judge Simon Newell, who allowed Vass out on bail before he killed Jane, and told him to watch it and see this man for what he is.

“Relatives of Jane want prison to be harsh. It peeves us that he is getting three meals a day and access to facilities that people out here in the community are struggling to get.

“What he said and what the nurse said backs up everything we know about him.

"I’m only surprised that he hasn’t blamed the justice system for letting him free on bail.

"He will blame anybody but himself.

“It is still hard for us to see him and know that he is being punished, but that he was never tried for the crimes that Jane reported.

“I find it shocking that we are paying about £50,000 a year to keep that man in prison when there’s cutbacks everywhere else.

"It should be really touch with no gym, TV access and the rest.”

Strangeways, a Wild Pictures production for ITV1, began last week.

The episode with Jonathan Vass is on tonight at 9pm.