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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.
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London County Mental Hospital (1918–1928) Hanwell Mental Hospital (1929–1937) St Bernard's Hospital (1938–1980) Psychiatric Unit (1980–1992) – part of a re-organised complex of divisions on same site and called Ealing General Hospital with a central corporate body. West London Mental Healthcare (NHS) Trust.
London, Broadmoor, Wakefield Prison Robert John Maudsley (born 26 June 1953) [ 1 ] is an English man convicted of multiple murders. Maudsley killed four people, with one of the killings taking place in a psychiatric hospital and two in prison after receiving a life sentence for a murder. [ 2 ]
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]
Crowthorne was only a hamlet until Wellington College opened in 1859 and Broadmoor Hospital in 1863. [5] Crowthorne was originally part of the parish of Sandhurst, and acquired its name as the postal authority wished to give it a name to facilitate deliveries from Wokingham, instead of post coming from York Town (which with Cambridge Town became known as Camberley).
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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.