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'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time.'
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 crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, 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 TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside.
Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves,
Product details
Publisher : Blink Publishing (8 Aug. 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 1788700945
ISBN-13 : 978-1788700948
Dimensions : 12.7 x 2.03 x 19.69 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 8,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
42 in Organised Crime Biographies
54 in Serial Killers (Books)
56 in Religious History of Christianity
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