Irishman ‘killed 18 on London Tube’

A former detective with Scotland Yard has claimed police covered up an Irish serial killer who stalked and murdered 18 people on the London Underground.

Irishman ‘killed 18 on London Tube’

He apparently killed his victims in the 1970s by pushing them onto the tracks. Former policeman Geoff Platt has alleged that police deliberately kept the case from the public so as not to cause widespread panic.

Platt said he listened to Dubliner Kiernan Kelly confess his crimes to police first hand after he was picked up in 1984 for being drunk and disorderly.

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