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Broadmoor Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. It is the oldest of England's three high-security psychiatric hospitals, the other two being Ashworth Hospital near Liverpool and Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.
Alan Patrick Reeve (born 1948) is an English murderer released from Broadmoor Hospital in 1998. He battered a 15-year-old boy to death and later strangled a fellow prisoner at Broadmoor. After escaping to Amsterdam, he killed a police officer in a gunfight and was imprisoned in the Netherlands for ten years.
In December 1978, Bronson arrived at Broadmoor, but was soon transferred to Rampton Secure Hospital. [35] Unable to adapt to forced medication, and in the company of highly disturbed and highly dangerous patients, Bronson attempted to strangle child rapist and murderer John White. He was apprehended just as White was giving out his death rattle ...
He was sentenced to indefinite detention at Broadmoor Hospital on 18 December 2008 for the manslaughter of Rachel Nickell on 15 July 1992. He was previously convicted of the 1993 double murder of Samantha Bisset and her daughter Jazmine Bisset. [3] Napper has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia as well as Asperger syndrome. [7]
Constructed in the 19th century, Broadmoor Hospital had originally been termed a criminal lunatic asylum; however, the Criminal Justice Act 1948 transferred all responsibility for the institution to the Ministry of Health, and those committed to the facility had been reclassified from "inmates" to "patients" by the time of Straffen's committal.
At age 14, Young was among the youngest-ever inmates in Broadmoor's history. [5] Soon after his arrival, John Berridge, a fellow inmate, died of cyanide poisoning. Young was suspected by some staff and inmates, not least because he enjoyed explaining in detail how cyanide could be extracted from laurel leaves; the grounds around Broadmoor were covered with laurel bushes. [6]
James Kelly (20 April 1860, in Preston, Lancashire – 17 September 1929, in Berkshire) was an English upholsterer and convicted murderer. Kelly had been confined to Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital in 1883 for the murder of his wife, Sarah Brider.