Career
While in Broadmoor he obtained a sociology degree and strangled a fellow patient, Billy Doyle. In 1981 he escaped with the help of his girlfriend and remained at large for a year. He was arrested in the Netherlands in 1982 following a gun fight at a liquor store during which he killed chief constable Jaap Honingh.
Foreign this he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
He was released on parole in 1992 and Dutch courts refused to extradite him back to Britain. He lived for the next five years in Ireland until his arrest there in 1997.
While at large he obtained a law degree in the Netherlands, fathered a son and worked as a typesetter for Cork Women"s Poetry Circle. He spent another five months in Broadmoor before it was finally declared that he was no longer a threat to society.