Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners

Here are stories about some of the most famous inmates: Ruth Ellis, the Krays, ‘prison superstar’ Charles Bronson, the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, the cannibalistic Dennis Nilsen, the evil child-killer Ian Brady, Beverley Allitt, ‘Razor’ Smith as well as chilling accounts concerning long forgotten villains. On the way read about Oscar Wilde’s time in Reading Gaol, about spies and political prisoners and Jeremy Bamber’s long campaign to assert his innocence.