17 September 2010 Last updated at 12:34 ET

Prisoner facing three murder charges in Shropshire

Robin Ligus has been charged with the murders of Trevor Bradley, Brian Coles and Bernard Czyzewska

A 58-year-old prisoner has been charged with three murders in Shropshire after a cold case review.

Robin Ligus from Shrewsbury, serving a life sentence for murdering a man during a burglary in the victim's home in 1994, will appear in court in Birmingham on 23 September.

He has been charged with the murders of Trevor Bradley, Brian Coles and Bernard Czyzewska, all in 1994.

Ligus was due for consideration for release next year.

He was charged by West Mercia Police on Thursday on the instructions of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after police had looked again at the unsolved killings.

The body of Trevor Bradley, 53, was found in April 1994 in his burnt-out car near to Melverley, North Shropshire.

Robin Ligus will appear in court later this month

Brian Coles, 57, was found dead in October 1994 at his home in Higher Heath, near Whitchurch.

The body of Bernard Czyzewska, aged 36, was found in the River Severn at Shrewsbury in November 1994.

Ligus was convicted of the murder of Robert Young, 75, which occurred during a burglary at his home in Shrewsbury, also in 1994.

Jayne Salt, Head of the CPS Complex Casework Unit, said: "Following a long and detailed investigation by West Mercia Police, we received a file in December 2009 on Robin Ligus.

"Due to the sheer volume of information contained in this file, it has taken until now to carefully review all of the available information to ensure that we have sufficient evidence and that it is in the public interest to charge Mr Ligus with any criminal offences that he may have committed.

"With all of the evidence having now been examined, I have authorised officers from West Mercia Police to charge Mr Ligus with three counts of murder."

Det Insp Andy Parsons, of West Mercia Police, said family liaison officers had been brought in to support relatives of the victims.