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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.
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.
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In 1981, the girls committed a number of crimes including vandalism, petty theft and arson, which led to them being admitted to Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security mental health hospital. The twins were sentenced to indefinite detention under the Mental Health Act 1983. [3] They remained at Broadmoor for eleven years. [20]
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.
Maudsley was found unfit to stand trial and was sent to Broadmoor Hospital. In 1977, he and another patient, David Cheeseman, who was serving a sentence for the rape and sexual assault of a sixteen-year-old girl, [9] locked themselves in a cell with a third patient, David Francis, a convicted child molester. [3]
Savile was a volunteer at the adult high-security psychiatric Broadmoor Hospital, and in August 1988 was appointed to chair an interim task force overseeing the management of the hospital, after its management board had been suspended. [96] It is alleged that Savile had hospital keys and access to patients' rooms.
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]