Inside Broadmoor : up close and personal with Britain's most dangerous criminals
Levi, Jonathan2019
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Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking and appalling crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe, John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, murderer and rapist Robert Napper, the teacup poisoner Graham Young, armed robber Charles Bronson, East End gangster Ronnie Kray, child killer Ian Brady, London nail bomber David Copeland and cannibal Peter Bryan. The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high-security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access investigative journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French reveal all.
Main title:
Inside Broadmoor : up close and personal with Britain's most dangerous criminals / Jonathan Levi & Emma French.
Author:
Levi, Jonathan, authorFrench, Emma, author
Imprint:
London : Blink, [2019]©2019
Collation:
294 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781788700948 (pbk)
Dewey class:
365.460942298365.46LEV365.46 LEV365.46365.460942
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2840387