Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has sent hundreds of letters to female devotees from his cell in Broadmoor, including a Valentine’s card to one to say he loves her.

A British mass killer who shot five people dead in 1978 has died while serving an indefinite sentence for firearms and explosives offences.

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Police in England are investigating whether an alleged victim of prolific sex offender Jimmy Savile has made a fraudulent compensation claim.

A mass killer who shot dead five people during a one-day "orgy of terror" in 1978 has admitted possessing firearms and making an improvised explosive device.

Claims Jimmy Savile may have sexually interfered with dead bodies are some of the most shocking revelations yet about the disgraced broadcaster.

Jimmy Savile committed "truly awful" abuse against patients at hospitals across the country and even boasted about having sex with corpses, a series of chilling reports have revealed.

An investigation into the depraved activities of Jimmy Savile in hospitals across Britain has uncovered testimony that he boasted of having sex with dead bodies, and that his victims ranged in age from five years up to pensioners in their mid-70s.

At least 500 victims as young as two were abused by the shamed television presenter Jimmy Savile during his reign as one of the UK's most prolific sex offenders, new research shows.

At least 500 victims, one of whom was just two years of age, were abused by the TV presenter Jimmy Savile during his reign as one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders, research shows.

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Simon Cowell is planning a 'Downton Abbey'-style show about Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.

More than 500 people have come forward as victims of the late DJ and television presenter Jimmy Savile, police said today.

Chat show host Michael Parkinson has said the BBC made “mistakes” over the Jimmy Savile abuse case, but the real question was why the DJ was given access to schools and hospitals.

Jimmy Savile thought he was “untouchable” and would regularly walk in on vulnerable Broadmoor patients while they were in the bath, it has been claimed.

Jimmy Savile was questioned by police investigating the Yorkshire Ripper murders, a senior officer who worked on the inquiry has revealed.

Comedian Freddie Starr was released on bail for a second time last night after being questioned by police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal.

A lawyer who is representing more than 20 people who claim to have been sexually assaulted by Jimmy Savile has said that the BBC and three hospitals could face legal action from alleged victims.

Seven alleged victims of Jimmy Savile made complaints to four separate police forces in the UK while the disgraced television presenter was alive.

Claims are being investigated that three doctors were involved in a network of child abusers connected with disgraced television presenter Jimmy Savile.

Information on three doctors who worked at hospitals where Jimmy Savile had links has been passed to police amid claims they were involved in a network of child abusers connected with the disgraced presenter.

David Cameron could order a public inquiry into the Jimmy Savile scandal once the BBC and police investigations are concluded, Downing Street has indicated.

A senior member of staff at the BBC has revealed he questioned Jimmy Savile over rumours about his private life more than 20 years ago.

Jimmy Savile’s alleged catalogue of abuse could have spanned six decades and included around 60 victims, police said.

BBC director-general George Entwistle offered a “profound and heartfelt apology” to the alleged victims of Jimmy Savile’s sexual abuse as he announced that two inquiries would be launched.

Hurricane Isaac has lashed the Louisiana coast and is heading for a shuttered New Orleans, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds.

Hurricane Isaac made landfall in south-east Louisiana today, with winds of nearly 80mph.

A man was remanded in custody in Britain today after he denied beheading a colleague at an exclusive golf club.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has launched a bid to challenge a High Court judge’s order that he can never be released.

YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, whose notorious murder campaign caused “widespread and permanent harm to the living”, will never be released, a judge ruled yesterday.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe must spend the rest of his life behind bars, the British High Court ruled today.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe will today learn the outcome of his plea not to have to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, will have his plea not to have to spend the rest of his life behind bars considered by the courts this summer.

YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe lost his cloak of anonymity yesterday as alegal battle began over whether he should ever be freed.

The UK's High Court today lifted a cloak of anonymity thrown over Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.

THERE was a “systematic failure” in the treatment of a schizophrenic who was allowed to live as an outpatient and went on to murder a friend and eat parts of his brain, a report found yesterday.

A man has been charged with attempted wounding with intent on the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe at Broadmoor hospital, police said today.

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been attacked by a fellow patient at Broadmoor prison.

A MAN who wanted to become a notorious serial killer and be like the Nightmare On Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger for a day was given six life sentences at the Old Bailey yesterday.

SOME of the terror suspects held for deportation from Britain are at “serious risk” in prison, their solicitor Gareth Pierce claimed last night.

A VOODOO-INSPIRED cannibal killer who ate the brain of one of his victims was behind bars last night after being told he will never be freed from custody.