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I survived 10 years in Broadmoor Hospital alongside the Yorkshire Ripper and a cannibal killer... but there is an inmate that stands out above all others

I survived 10 years in Broadmoor Hospital with the Yorkshire Ripper and a cannibal

During his decade in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, Paul Knight was incarcerated alongside some of Britain's most notorious criminals. In fact, he claims there are so many dangerous patients in the infamous institution in Berkshire it becomes 'normal' to be 'friends' with double murderers. From the 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe to cannibal Peter Ryan and a host of Al-Qaeda jihadis, Knight rubbed shoulders with scores of dangerous men.

EXCLUSIVEExperts expose the warped mind of the crossbow killer, why he murdered three women and the 'extraordinary' detail that still horrifies psychiatrists

Experts expose the warped mind of the crossbow killer, why he murdered three women and the

Former soldier Kyle Clifford was a 'psychopath... who was able to disguise himself as an ordinary human being' before murdering his ex-girlfriend, her sister and their mother in a barbaric attack. Those were the words of BBC racing commentator John Hunt, whose wife Carol and daughters, Louise and Hannah, were savagely murdered by Clifford at their family home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on July 9 2024.

EXCLUSIVEThe Notting Hill mansion mystery: How millionaire Marxist architect killed his violinist wife in their £1.6m townhouse... but 30 years later her body has never been found

The Notting Hill mansion mystery: How millionaire Marxist architect killed his violinist

It will be 30 years next year since Gracia Morton disappeared. The devoted mother-of-one was killed by her millionaire Marxist husband over what was believed to be a row over sending their daughter to private school. Michael Morton was convicted and jailed for his crimes seven years later after two trials and three police investigations, but her body has never been found.

Moment misogynist teen leads his mother to isolated nature reserve before recording himself bludgeoning her to death and gloating online

This is the moment a misogynistic teen leads his mother to an isolated nature reserve where he recorded himself bludgeoning her to death with a hammer before boasting about it online. Chilling CCTV footage shows Tristan Thomas Roberts, 18, luring his mother Angela Shellis, who he previously held hostage for hours, away from their home before launching a brutal attack. And just over two hours later, at around 5.35am on October 24, the teen was seen making his way home by himself and was spotted moments later with plastic bags outside.

The disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer: How teen who snatched British toddler from Sydney beach may finally face justice... 56 years later

The disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer: How teen who snatched British toddler from Sydney

He was just seven when his little sister Cheryl Grimmer was snatched from idyllic Fairy Meadow Beach - but 56 years later not a day passes that Ricki Nash doesn't think about what happened in 1970. He remembers it all: Cheryl giggling in her blue swimming costume as she ducked away from him into the ladies' changing rooms; the growing terror on his mother's face when they couldn't find her; the blame and guilt that took root and grew like tentacles around him for the rest of his life. 'I was supposed to keep her safe,' he says, speaking to the Daily Mail after a decision by Australian prosecutors which means the chilling cold case into the disappearance of three-year-old British toddler Cheryl Grimmer might finally be solved after all these years.

Ruthless 'Home Counties hitman' who gunned down Albanian businessman in £1million blood feud 'organised from the UK' is jailed for life

Ruben Saraiva, who grew up in Reading, Berkshire, from the age of four, was disguised as a delivery driver when he strolled into a Balkan seaside resort owned by Ardian Nikulaj and blasted him six times.

EXCLUSIVELondon's phone theft hotspots revealed: Interactive map shows where you're most likely to have your mobile snatched - with 168 taken by criminals every day

Some 61,331 devices were snatched throughout 2025 - equivalent to 1,179 a week or 168 a day, according to analysis of the Metropolitan Police's crime dashboard data.

AI bot told teen to use a hammer to kill his mother: Loner callously tortured and executed his devoted parent after becoming lost in toxic online world that indulged his brutal fantasies

The disturbing details behind the murder of teaching assistant Angela Shellis came as her son Tristan Roberts, 18, was jailed for life yesterday for bludgeoning her to death with a hammer.

The moment the net finally closed on Britain's vilest child predator.... and the horrifying twist that almost defies belief

As retired postmaster David Herkes mowed his front lawn in the quiet Borders village of Stow, something disturbing caught his eye.

EXCLUSIVEI was made homeless by the Casanova Conman... he left me penniless and went on the run - but this is how I put him in jail

Carol-Anne Board, 61, was left without a home for her children after shameless David Coombs spun an elaborate lie about a property.

EXCLUSIVEMarilyn Monroe's long-lost secret diary revealed for first time: JFK's obscene sex demand... and deathbed note detective says proves RFK murdered her

Hidden deep within a maze of secret dossiers locked inside an LAPD intelligence department lay something that the world had considered lost: the diary of Marilyn Monroe.

Inside the House of Horrors: I lived with serial killers Fred and Rose West for a year - I'm haunted by a sickly stench and the moment I narrowly escaped death

'I kept thinking back to odd things I'd noticed. Like the fact that I always felt like I was being watched on the stairs, they were so creepy, and little did I know there were bodies buried underneath.'

Moment killer laughs to police after stamping to death mother who tried to help him following car crash

Chukwuemeka Ahanonu, 24, was found guilty of murder after he launched a vicious assault on 56-year-old mother Nila Patel, moments after flipping his BMW on its roof in broad daylight in a city centre.

The secretive 'cocaine of the sea' trafficking gangs: How Hong Kong triads are smuggling endangered European glass eels into Asia to sell on black market for huge profits

A new BBC documentary has uncovered how Hong Kong gangs are smuggling endangered European glass eels - dubbed the 'cocaine of the sea' - into Asia for huge profits.

The hunt for Nicola Bulley: Step by step, the unanswered questions and last movements of the mother-of-two who mysteriously disappeared while walking her dog

Nicola Bulley dropped her two daughters at school on January 27, 2023, kissing them goodbye before taking her dog for a morning stroll along a quiet Lancashire riverbank. Then the 45-year-old suddenly disappeared, leaving behind no witnesses or any signs of a struggle. It was a mystery that gripped Britain and left the nation asking: How could a mother vanish without trace? Police insisted she had fallen into the river. But family and friends remained sceptical and continued appealing for anyone with information about her to come forward. As her case made headlines, it attracted social media video-makers who visited the area and disrupted the investigation by promoting false speculation and rumours. Her body was eventually found in the river, around a mile downstream from where she had disappeared just over three weeks earlier. An inquest concluded her death was an accident after a coroner ruled she did not have 'any desire' to take her own life. Here, DEEP DIVE retraces her final moments…

EXCLUSIVEMy mum was a satanic death cult killer... I can still hear her victim scratching at my bedroom wall

My mum was a satanic death cult killer... I can still hear her victim scratching at my

Kelly Higgins can still hear the screams of her beloved babysitter Suzanne Capper as she was tortured by her mum and a gang of satan-obsessed followers in Manchester, 1992.

EXCLUSIVEI ran America's only Supermax jail: What history's most notorious terrorists and serial killers told me as they waited to die

I ran America's only Supermax jail: What history's most notorious terrorists and serial

ADX Florence in Colorado is the only Supermax jail, where the 'worst of the worst' are kept locked up for life.

How a donated brain helped catch a double killer: Ian Stewart thought he had got away with murder TWICE... but one error led to his downfall

In 2010, Diane Stewart, 47, was believed to have suffered an epilepsy-related death at her Hertfordshire home. 12 years later, the truth was finally unveiled due to the great work of scientists.

Sister of murdered April Jones reveals for the first time just how paedophile Mark Bridger destroyed their family - with her father dead from a broken heart and relatives not speaking...and her fears for her own daughter who looks just like April

Almost 14 years on, her older sister Hazel Jones, now 31, is breaking her silence for the first time on the tragedy that tore her family apart when April, 5, was abducted and murdered in 2012.

What REALLY happened to Nancy Guthrie? Seven weeks after the TV anchor's mother vanished from her home, GUY ADAMS sifts through the clues in the kidnap mystery gripping the world

This week temperatures in this dusty corner of Arizona were 105F (40C) - and turned visiting America's most famous unsolved crime scene into a gruelling endurance sport. Damian, a middle-aged YouTuber who runs a channel named 857 Tucson, is one of several 'livestreamers' who have been coming to Guthrie's house daily for almost seven weeks.

EXCLUSIVEMy son the serial killer: The murderer so evil his own father called him a 'monster in plain sight'

In a previously unpublished interview, obtained by the Daily Mail, Steve Wright's father gives a chilling insight into the warped mind of the son he thought he knew.

EXCLUSIVEThe public schoolboy assassin: How a middle class hitman working for Liverpool's deadliest gang is linked to shotgun murder of a suburban mother-of-three in her own home

EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Hargreaves was asleep on her living room sofa when three men burst in and blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun.

EXCLUSIVE'He's an evil man. He'd try it again': Ben Field duped dozens and murdered Peter Farquhar after pretending to fall in love with him, drugging him and getting him to change his will. Now, we reveal why he could be released in just weeks

For several years Ben Field preyed upon the elderly, among them 69-year-old former English teacher, university lecturer and author Peter Farquhar, who died in 2015.

EXCLUSIVELin and Megan's murder was one of the UK's most brutal. Now it's being reinvestigated after 30 years - with an already notorious killer in the frame.

Lin and Megan Russell's murders were two of the UK's most brutal. Now, as the Mail

Lin Russell, 45, and her six-year-old daughter Megan were battered to death with a hammer in a country lane not far from their home in rural Chillenden, Kent in 1996. Michael Stone, a drug addict with a previous conviction for a separate hammer attack, was arrested - despite no DNA evidence linking him to the scene. He was later convicted and jailed for the murder of Lin and Megan and the attempted murder of Josie. Now that conviction is potentially in doubt as the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) opens a probe into the evidence that convicted Stone. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Stone said he would 'never' admit to the killings. He insisted Bellfield was involved and branded Daley a 'lying lowlife… who created a miscarriage of justice'.

Beauty influencer dead at 31 after being found strangled and dumped in forest

Influencer Stefanie Pieper, 31, has been found dead in a remote Slovenian forest.

EXCLUSIVEThe torso in the Thames mystery: How voodoo murder that saw boy, 5, decapitated and dumped in the river remains unsolved 25 years later as police urge witnesses to come forward

'Adam' was a name given by Scotland Yard to a young boy whose dismembered body was discovered floating in the River Thames in London on September 21, 2001.

The Vogue model who fleeced a string of besotted wealthy men out of £150,000 - and even ripped off her own lawyer

A woman of apparently independent means, she had a gallery of glossy portfolio images and would tell prospective suitors of the £42million fortune coming her way.

Why the man convicted of the murders of Lin and Megan Russell may be the victim of Britain's most grotesque miscarriage of justice

Stone, 65, claims to be innocent of the Chillenden Murders. If true, that would make him the victim of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British criminal history, writes GUY ADAMS.

The disturbing evidence that witchcraft is spreading across Britain unchecked... 30 years after discovery of horrific voodoo-style murder should have ended it for good

Among the most notorious cases was Victoria Climbié, tortured to death by relatives believing she was possessed - while Mardoche Yembi is among survivors speaking out.

I hunt paedophiles across the globe on the dark web using the tiniest details to identify them. This is the case that keeps me up at night... and why things are getting worse

The home video was just a few seconds long; a girl in her bedroom. No name, no location, just a few words in English, but not enough to determine the child's nationality. Nothing identifying at all.

EXCLUSIVE'Uncle Bob', the man who enjoys classical music, playing chess...and has murdered four people: The real-life story of 'Hannibal the Cannibal' who has spent half a century in solitary confinement

'Uncle Bob', the man who enjoys classical music, playing chess...and has murdered four

The UK's 'most dangerous' serial killer who was locked in a bulletproof glass box for more than 40 years after committing bloodthirsty murders is a 'hero' who deserves to walk free, a family member has claimed. Robert Maudsley, 72, was thrown into solitary confinement in a specially-built glass 'dungeon' in 1983 after killing three people in prison while serving a life sentence for murder. The twisted killer, who was given the nickname 'Hannibal the Cannibal' following rumours he had eaten one of his victims' brains with a spoon, was held in the underground cell at HMP Wakefield - known as the 'Monster Mansion' - until last year, before he was moved 125 miles south to HMP Whitemoor.

EXCLUSIVEFrom Pablo Escobar's cocaine-soaked jeans... to fake charcoal: How cartels are using advanced chemistry to make drugs that sniffer dogs can't detect

From Pablo Escobar's cocaine-soaked jeans... to fake charcoal: How cartels are using

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar pioneered the method of hiding cocaine in other materials - but traffickers has long since advanced his method. Gangs are developing increasingly sophisticated chemical techniques to embed cocaine into a wide array of everyday items, from varnish, wax and paint to transparent plastic. The issue has raised alarm among law enforcement, with a new report by Europol warning it can make detection by scanners, sniffer dogs and forensic tests 'extremely difficult'.

I watched a 12-year-old murderer smile in the dock... her evil is something I will NEVER forget, writes TOM RAWSTORNE. Read it exclusively in The Crime Desk newsletter

I watched a 12-year-old murderer smile in the dock... her evil is something I will NEVER

In The Crime Desk newsletter, read Tom Rawstorne's account of the horrifying crimes of Britain's youngest ever female killer.

EXCLUSIVEThe 'unbreakable' code that baffled Scotland Yard detectives investigating the Spy in the Bag mystery... until the truth emerged

The 'unbreakable' code that baffled Scotland Yard detectives investigating the Spy in the

Searching through a diary belonging to the 31-year-old maths prodigy and codebreaker Gareth Williams whose decomposing body had been found padlocked inside a holdall, Scotland Yard detectives came across a mysterious phrase written in his handwriting. Convinced the seemingly indecipherable clue could be the key to understanding what had happened to him they presented their discovery to the dead man's close friends in the hope that they might be able to shed some light on its meaning. They could. But, unfortunately, the solution could hardly have been more simple.

How 'ordinary' Steve Wright hid monstrous secrets: The chilling story of the Suffolk Strangler who murdered five women and was finally brought to justice after DNA linked him to a sixth cold case 24 years on

How did an ordinary truck driver become one of Britain's most notorious serial killers - and how did he kill six women before police finally caught him? For years, Steve Wright lived in plain sight, an 'ordinary' man concealing monstrous secrets.

The Alexander brothers' crimes have horrified the world. The millionaire US celebrity estate agents trafficked, drugged and took turns to rape dozens of women over decades. So as the trio finally face justice, what now for their glossy model wives?

The Alexander brothers' crimes have horrified the world. The millionaire US celebrity

For catwalk model Shani Zigron, the five-week trial of her husband and his two brothers in America's most horrifying sex crime case for years had been an exercise in poised and perfect loyalty.

Shocking new timeline finally offers clues into Hollywood's greatest unsolved murder that's baffled historians for decades

Shocking new timeline finally offers clues into unsolved murder that's baffled historians

For nearly 80 years, mystery has surrounded who killed Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, the infamous mobster who built Las Vegas' first luxury casino, but a timeline of the night he was murdered offers clues to what happened.

The lies of Britain's last hangman: Albert Pierrepoint boasted about killing 600 people because he wanted to pack out his pub - but the real number was nowhere near

The lies of Britain's last hangman: Albert Pierrepoint boasted about killing 600 people

Albert Pierrepoint was proud of being an executioner so efficient he could kill in 'less time than it took for ash to fall off a cigar'. He also boasted of killing 600 people but in reality the total was far less. Why did Britain's last hangman tell so many lies about his career?

The hitman and his lover: How glamorous student nurse became embroiled in murder plot with man she had met just FIVE days before

Stanislava Kukusheva, a blonde, pouting 36-year-old nurse, is currently embarking on a five-year jail sentence, after becoming embroiled in a murder-for-hire plot involving her Tinder match.

24 shares How a nurse became embroiled in a murder plot

Mother-of-three Ann Heron was sunbathing in her garden when she was stabbed to death by a mystery attacker… 35 years later her killer has never been found but police only have ONE suspect

Ann Heron was attacked while sunbathing in the garden of the idyllic Aeolian House, near Darlington, before a planned night out with friends on August 3 1990.

EXCLUSIVEHe terrorized millions. Now the Son of Sam has confided in me... and has finally broken his silence on two of the most heinous crimes

He terrorized millions. Now the Son of Sam has confided in me... and has finally broken

The notorious Son of Sam killer is writing to the press once again. In a series of rare, exclusive messages to the Daily Mail, the 72-year-old has broken his silence about a shooting recently classed as his first known attack - as well as bombshell allegations that he may have murdered a teenage girl six years before the Summers of Sam.

Nancy Guthrie cops STILL haven't found car that was ominously filmed circling her house

Authorities investigating the chilling disappearance of Nancy Guthrie have still not located the car that was seen driving near her Tucson, Arizona home just hours before she was reported missing.

The loophole that could hand Bryan Kohberger a huge payday if he exposes his prison secrets in an unthinkable insult to his victims

Dave Leroy, former Idaho Attorney General, reveals that Idaho laws can't stop Kohberger from selling his story. But, they can make sure he never gets his hands on the money himself.

EXCLUSIVEThey were waiting for the end of the world on a lonely mountain ridge... nine days later and with a sniper's split-second call it ended in blood. So what really went wrong in the siege that stunned America?

Randy and Vicki Weaver had been bracing for Armageddon since at least 1983, when they left Iowa and brought their three young children to a high, forested ridge in North Idaho.

EXCLUSIVENANCY GRACE: I interviewed Making a Murderer's Steven Avery. This was the moment I knew I was talking to a killer

Before Making a Murderer convinced viewers that Steven Avery was a victim of a miscarriage of justice, he joined me on our program. That was the moment I knew he was Teresa Halbach's killer.

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