THE daughter of Dudley gunman, the Laughing Cavalier, says her dad is being made “a mockery of” as he is denied release from prison yet again - more than 20 years after being locked up.

Anthony Harlow, who lived in Hillside Road, was jailed for life in 1986, with a minimum term of three and a half years to serve, after launching a shooting spree in the Wren’s Nest estate. Although nobody was hurt in incidents, Harlow fired a gun at a neighbour, at a house of a woman he didn’t like, at a passing car and into a crowded pub over a two day period.

After his latest refusal by the Parole Board, his 24-year-old daughter, Sarah said her dad has served his time and now deserves to come home.

Sarah, of Woodsorrel Road, said:” Murderers don’t get this long. If he had of killed someone, he would have been out now.”

At a recent hearing at London’s High Court, the Parole Board refused Harlow release because it said he was still proving to be a danger to the public, while being locked up - listing events when he wounded a prison officer, threatened a prisoner with a knife as well as saying he would take a member of the prison staff hostage.

However his family, say all these incidents happened 18-years ago, and he has done “nothing recently”.

Sarah said: “They are making a mockery of him. He has served his time, but he is still in. It is not fair, he is not dangerous.”

She added: “People who were in prison with him when he first went in, have come out and gone back in for a different thing and even they can’t believe he is still in there for the same offence.”

Also looking forward to Harlow’s release, are Sarah’s six children, who range from 10-years-old to just 16 weeks.

Sarah said: “They were looking forward to seeing their Grandad at Christmas and New Year. We all really thought this would be the time he gets released.

“He hasn’t even seen my youngest and has only seen the others when he was on the run, or sometimes in prison visits.

“But I don’t like taking them to prison to see him, and they don’t like going either as they have to get searched. “ Harlow has escaped from jail three times while being held in open conditions. His latest spell ran from September 2005 to January 2006.

Sarah said: “When he was on the run, the police must have known he wasn’t dangerous. He wasn’t actually hiding was he, so if he was so dangerous, why didn’t they do something sooner?”

She added: “He shouldn’t be in there. He should be out and at home with us all.”