THE killer of a Lancashire nurse filmed inside his cell for a prison documentary ripped her eyes out of a newspaper report.

Last night's episiode of ITV1’s Strangeways series saw Jonathan Vass, 31, being mentally assessed by specialist staff as a potential suicide risk at maximum security HMP Manchester.

He is serving life for the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend Jane Clough, 26, from Barrowford.

He stabbed Jane to death in the Blackpool hospital car park where she worked.

She had reported Vass for allegedly raping her while she was pregnant with their daughter.

He had been granted bail Vass was sentenced to life imprisonment last October

Vass told the TV crew: “I miss her and I feel empty. I miss her, but I hate her. I hate her so much.”

When asked by a prison nurse about suicidal thoughts, he replied: “I just think about family really and the fact that I’ve got three children.

"Hopefully one day, if and when I get released, I’ll be able to see them and be part of their lives.

"That’s the only thing really.”

But the prison nurse then said: “To me it’s the eyes, they give it away.

"There’s no emotion there whatsoever. For quite some time I think he will be quite dangerous.

“Initially when he got his 30 years, some of it maybe in anger.

"But to tear her eyes out of the paper when there was a big photograph of her, that wasn't because he didn’t like looking at her eyes, it was blame.

“He actually said he had no victim empathy whatsoever and that it was all her fault.”

Jane’s mum Penny Clough, a nurse herself, said it was hard for the family to watch.

But she said: “I was thrilled that this nurse saw right through him.

“This was the man we knew, unremorseful for anything.

"His attitude in life is to blame anybody but himself for what he did.

“It’s sad that a nurse could see this, but Judge Simon Newell could not.”

Mrs Clough said she had received ‘amazing’ feedback following the show and it prompted her to write again to Judge Newell, who made the decision to allow Vass out on bail, before he went on to murder Jane.

She said she felt Judge Newell remained ‘unaccountable and unanswerable’ for his decision.