JAILED Scream mask killer Heather Stevenson-Snell has turned down the chance to write a book, the Evening Press can reveal.

The former York psychotherapist has told how she was recently approached about chronicling the events in which Lancashire man Robert Wilkie died - but had refused.

The 49-year-old is spending Christmas at HMP Durham after being moved from Buckley Hall prison in Rochdale.

The former Crombie Avenue resident, who was jailed in September 2004, was moved after the Rochdale jail was reclassified as a male training prison.

The Evening Press reported in September that the prison had been reclassified because of the changing nature of the prison population, and would become a Category C jail - providing an extra 350 male places.

Despite the move, Stevenson-Snell, in a letter to the Evening Press, said she was lucky to have "good inmate support" at Durham, "as I have had in other prisons".

Stevenson-Snell was jailed for 22 years at Manchester Crown Court after a jury found her guilty of the murder of Radcliffe resident Mr Wilkie and the attempted murder of his neighbour Diane Lomax on Hallowe'en 2003.

A jury decided she killed Mr Wilkie, firing a sawn-off shotgun into his abdomen, after travelling to Radcliffe, near Bury, dressed in a "Scream mask" and ghost costume with the intention of killing Ms Lomax - a love rival. Mr Wilkie died after interrupting a late-night row.

Stevenson-Snell has consistently denied murder, arguing that Mr Wilkie's death was an accident caused by the shotgun firing accidentally.

Earlier this year, the Evening Press reported Stevenson-Snell's version of events on October 31 after she wrote to us from prison.

"I have been approached recently by some creep who wants to 'do a book'," she wrote. "I told him where to go."

She also said recent newspaper coverage of her former dog-sitter Adrian Sinclair, revealing how he feared Stevenson-Snell was still pursuing him, was a "pack of lies".

She is planning a possible appeal against sentence and conviction next year.

Updated: 09:35 Tuesday, December 27, 2005