Albert Dryden, who killed Harry Collinson in front of TV crews in County Durham in 1991, to be moved to residential care home A man who shot a council officer dead in front of TV camera crews has been released from jail after having a stroke. Albert Dryden, 76, had been serving life in prison for the murder of Harry Collinson, principal planning officer with Derwentside council in County Durham, in June 1991.