How Many Serial Killers Are Active In The UK Now?
- Female serial killers mostly use methods such as poisoning, shooting, suffocating, stabbing, and drowning.
- According to police authorities, gay men, women over 60, and sex workers are most likely to be attacked.
- Some of the most notorious serial killers in the UK nowadays are Peter Bryan, Levi Bellfield, Anthony Hardy, and Stephen Port.
Serial killers are murderers who usually kill three or more people for pleasure, lust, sexual contact with victims, etc. Often, these people have some DNA abnormalities, psychological issues if they were abused in their childhood, whether sexually, physically, or emotionally. Those are the things that leave a trace, and if they are triggered by something, they start to kill.
Serial killers can be both male or female, and evolutionary psychology tends to believe that they "operate" differently. Female serial killers are usually thought to kill their victims because of financial reasons, and their most common killing methods are poisoning, shooting, suffocating, stabbing, and drowning. According to some theorists, serial killers are born, not made.
Serial Killers In The United Kingdom
Serial killings in Scotland and the UK are really rare, and police have a lack of experience and knowledge to fight serial killers and to catch them. Sex workers, women over 60, and gay men are most likely to be attacked according to police authorities. But, professor Dennis Wilson stresses out that serial killing is an unusual phenomenon, and detectives are not going to have a lot of cases like those. For them, it is more important to find out the identity of the person that a serial killer might want to kill rather than his motivation.
Since Jack the Ripper, there have been 34 serial killers in Britain. Harold Shipman was the most prolific serial killer in the history of Britain with around 250 victims, working as a GP (general practitioner). David Mcgreavy brutally killed three children in the year 1974., They were aged 2, 4, and 9 months old, and because they were crying all the time, he impaled their bodies on a neighbor's fence. He was released in June 2019 after the psychiatrist confirmed that he is no longer a threat.
Active Serial Killers In The UK
The most famous London serial killer is Jack the Ripper, whose identity is still a mystery, even after 130 years. Unfortunately, nowadays, we also have several notorious serial killers in this area.
- Peter Bryan brutally killed several people, and as if that was not enough, he ate their brains. He was sent into the mental hospital, and after some time, it seemed he got better, so they released him to a lower security unit in North London. After some time, he attacked again, and after numerous observations and reviews, he went back behind bars at the age of 49.
- Levi Bellfield chose blonde victims, killed several girls, and people remember him mostly for kidnapping a 13-year-old girl whose body was found six months later. He is serving three life sentences.
- Anthony Hardy, also known to the public as the devil – worshipper, would have sadomasochistic sex with prostitutes, kill them, and then cut them into pieces with an electric saw, throwing them into garbage bins near his house. He was sentenced to a life sentence.
- Stephen Port is one of the most recent serial killers in London's history. He would seduce his victims and give them a rape drug. All of his victims were gay men. He is also sentenced to life.
