CHARITY BOSS IS A CONVICTED KILLER

VIOLENT PAST OF ACTION FOR CHILDREN CHIEF

- SIMON MURPHY

THE Princess of Wales laughs as she meets the boss of her children's charity, unaware he is a convicted murderer.

Paul Carberry stabbed a father-to-be on a train five times and wounded another passenger.

Colleagues knew of his past when he became the £154,500-a-year chief of Action for Children in March.

But charity patron Kate and her husband Prince William had no idea of his crimes when they met him at a primary school a year ago.

Carberry, 60, was photographed smiling with the couple then the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

They then joined others in a discussion about teaching children emotions.

Carberry was a teen himself when he carried out his fatal attack, age 16.

But it did not stop him becoming boss of AfC, which aims to "protect and support children and young people".

Nor has it prevented him securing a role on the Serious and Organised Crime Taskforce in his native Scotland - with a brief to curb youth gangs.

DRINKING

Yesterday, when we confronted Carberry about his past, he told us: "That's something I've regretted every day of my life. A family did not have their loved one because of me."

Carberry stabbed John Murray, 21, on a train carrying Scottish football fans to London for a match against England in 1979.

Court reports said Carberry, who had been drinking beer and vodka, was in the Govan Team gang - named after a tough district of his native Glasgow.

The court was told violence began after a member of Carberry's mob molested a woman on board.