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Formal procedures should be put in place to handle suspected “bad apples” in the NHS, the inquiry over the crimes of killer nurse Lucy Letby has heard.

The mother of a baby who Lucy Letby tried to kill says hospital bosses who ignored concerns about her were "complicit in the harm that was caused" and should face criminal action.

A notorious killer, who is allegedly kept in a glass cage beneath the infamous HMP Wakefield, is said to be provoked by the sound of whistling.

Serial baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after receiving the UK's most severe punishment for her crimes.

One of the UK’s top pathologists has backed calls to exhume a toddler’s body to prove she was murdered more than 60 years ago.

The detective who brought Scots serial killer Peter Tobin to justice will host a talk on murderers in Kilmarnock later this year.

Channel 5 at 10pm, exploring the history and criminals housed at one of the UK’s most notorious prisons.Located in West Yorkshire, the walls at HMP Wakefield have seen their fair share of dangerous convicts.It has housed terrorists, serial killers and psychopaths, with many still there to this day.However, some of the most notorious are criminals of the past – including Charles Bronson and Harold Shipman.There is a reason why Channel 5 chose to use the word evil in the show’s title, as many of the acts these criminals committed are unthinkable in their horror and depravity.The press called him the “most violent prisoner in Britain” and “Britain’s most notorious prisoner.”Born Michael Gordon Peterson, he has spent most of his life behind bars after first being arrested for petty crimes in 1974.He attacked guards and other prisoners during his stay but was eventually released in 1987.That year, he became a bare-knuckle boxer, where he gained his title of Charles Bronson before returning to prison in 1988.He was also the subject of Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Bronson, where Tom Hardy played the title role.A German theoretical physicist and atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs gave over British, American and Canadian intelligence from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.He was instrumental in early calculations in early nuclear weapons shortly after the Second World War, even helping with early models of the hydrogen bomb.He was convicted in 1950 and spend nine years in the UK before migrating to East Germany and resumed his career as a scientific leader.Behind the Soham Murders, Ian Huntley killed two children in Soham, Cambridgeshire.Born in Grimsby, Ian ended up working as a school caretaker in Soham before luring Holly Marie

Killers who commit the vilest crimes in the UK are handed a whole-life prison term, meaning they will die behind bars. There are currently dozens of criminals locked up in prison who will never be released.

Most people would struggle to associate a prison with good memories, especially one as notorious as HMP Wakefield.

The long-running Manchester Arena Inquiry has cost taxpayers £26.7m so far. The figure has been revealed in a series of financial reports published on the inquiry website.

Sarah Everard, who went missing on March 3, 2021.Sarah's tragic death caused outrage in London and across the country, particularly after it was discovered that she was murdered by Wayne Couzens, a serving Met Police officer.Couzens' conviction, the rough dispersal of a vigil for Sarah on Clapham Common, as well as a number of other scandals in which sexist Whatsapp conversations revealed widespread inappropriate behaviour within the force, ultimately led to a loss of confidence in the Met.Recently, Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick was forced to resign by London Mayor Sadiq Khan after yet more scandals involving police officers surfaced.The Met said: "There have been other murders of women in public spaces, including the Sabina Nessa, and very recently of Sabina Nessa. All of these bring into sharp focus our urgent duty to do more to protect women and girls." An inquiry by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) recently found "disgraceful" misogyny within the force that was not "simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'."Couzens is now behind bars, the rapist and murderer sentenced to life in prison without parole inside HMP Frankland.The jail is in County Durham and has also housed the notorious murderers Harold Shipman and Ian Huntley.In September 2021, Couzens challenged his sentence in an appeal that is likely to take place in May this year and is expected to argue that his actions did not warrant a whole life sentence.His sentence was described as setting new legal ground as he was given a life term for the murder of one person.

Paddy McGuinness helped rebuild Strangeways prison after inmates tore it up in riots. The notorious jail has housed the likes of Charles Bronson, Ian Brady and Dr Harold Shipman. Top Gear host Paddy revealed he worked at the Manchester nick laying cell floors with his pals.

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serial killer Harold Shipman.The “Slightly Dubious Good Doctor” face coverings show the mouth and white beard of the GP, who is believed to have murdered up to 250 patients including a four-year-old girl.Shipman, dubbed Dr Death, is the UK’s worst serial killer.The sick masks are being sold online for £10.

https://t.co/RNBO7V7euk— holly (@hollywheeler_) November 13, 2020So it was little surprise the 74-year-old’s passing made headlines.And it was perhaps the fact his name was everywhere for a few days that Gavin & Stacey fans made the bone chilling connection that not only was Dawn’s husband Pete actually named after the murderer, Peter Sutcliffe, but that in fact, all the surnames in Gavin & Stacey were based on infamous murderers.The show’s writers made a slightly disturbing point of naming Gavin, Pam and Mick Shipman, after the murderer GP Harold Shipman who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his patients.Surely you have to kill off Pete Sutcliffe now in the next series of Gavin & Stacey @JKCorden— Jeffi Clarke (@JeffiClarke)

The murderous doctor Harold Shipman’s heartless reaction to being shown images of his victims has been revealed in a new BBC documentary.The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime has been showing the true scale of the Hyde GP’s killings - and how little he thought of those who he murdered.Shipman worked as a GP in the Tameside town throughout the 1980s and 90s, building up a level of trust and respect in the local community.However, he was secretly administering a lethal dose of poison to many of his patients - and walked away with cash from their wills.Shipman was arrested and jailed in 2000 while police gathered more evidence about patients they believed he had killed.The new three-part documentary series, which has been airing on BBC Two,

Harold Shipman is the worst serial killer of modern times - found guilty of murdering 15 of his patients, the deadly doctor is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 250 people.

BBC Two.The series takes a deeper look at the stories of serial killer Harold Shipman’s victims, among other aspects of the grim story.The GP injected his patients with lethal doses of diamorphine between 1995 and 1998.Although he was convicted of 15 murders, an inquest found that the real number was more than 250.He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonments on 15 counts of murder and one count of forgery.Shipman took his own life in prison in 2004, the same year an inquiry concluded he had killed at least 215 people.171 of the victims were women, and 44 were men.But it is feared the real number could be as high as 459.Most of his victims were elderly women, but his youngest known victim was four-year-old Susie Garfitt.Shipman

Doctor John Bodkin Adams, known as the 'original' Harold Shipman is believed to have murdered more than 300 patients over a period of three decades.Over 30 years, Dr Adams groomed the community in Eastbourne, UK, so much so that he got away with his horrific crimes and even managed to get himself onto many of his elderly victims' wills before they died. But, thanks to his kind reputation, he was rumoured to be the richest doctor in England due to his huge list of clients - despite a lot of them dying under his care.

BBC Two documentary will take a deeper look at the crimes of sadistic serial killerHarold Shipman.The former GP was found guilty of killing 15 of his patients back in 2000 – but an inquiry later found he had murdered around 250.Between 1971 and 1998 Shipman killed mostly elderly female patients by injecting them with diamorphine – the medical name for heroin.For more than 25 years Shipman got away with murder from his GP surgery in Hyde.But his crimes eventually caught up with him after he killed his last victim – 81-year-old Kathleen Grundy.The first episode of Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story looks at how his serial killing was finally uncovered.Despite her impressive years, the former mayoress of Hyde was fit and healthy.Shipman

In 1998 a doctor called Linda Reynolds in Hyde, Greater Manchester, became suspicious of another GP in town.