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lose by taking further lives as he’s already been given life imprisonment.
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CHAPTER SIX
SADISTIC DIVERSITY
The British sadists in most of the previous profiles had distinct sexual preferences – Neville Heath, active in 1946, liked to whip young females. In contrast, Patrick Byrne, who murdered in 1959, fantasised about using a circular saw on girls.
Victor Miller, whose crimes spanned the 1970s and 1980s, preferred to beat his teenage male victims with a stick, and Colin Ireland, active in 1993, favoured slow suffocation of homosexual men.
Only the deeply disordered Anthony Anderson seems to have lacked a signature, using everything from picquerism (cutting for erotic purposes) to bludgeoning with a hammer and an axe.
But the following case studies illustrate just how wide-ranging sadistic fantasies and actions can be. One sadist maimed and killed his victims from a distance with nail bombs, another favoured ligature strangulation whilst a third had a razor fetish. These cases also show the various mental disorders which can accompany criminal sadism, as one was diagnosed as schizophrenic, one was a necrophile and most were sociopaths.
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SADISTIC KILLERS
PAUL BEART
Convicted of a horrific torture murder in 2002, Paul Beart illustrates the difficulty of treating an adult psychopath.
In 1997, he was jailed for a violent sexual attack on a young woman. Whilst incarcerated, Beart took part in a sex offenders rehabilitation course which he was deemed to have passed with flying colours. Intelligent and well read, a university drop-out, he was bright enough to give the authorities the answers they required.
Beart was freed in 2000 after serving just over half of his six-year sentence, a report saying that he’d ‘addressed his offending behaviour’ and was safe to be released on licence. He would kill within five months.
In April 2001, he left his home in Boston, Lincolnshire and travelled to Newquay in Cornwall, booking in to a beach resort where he knew there would be young women. For the first two days he stalked three such women, and on his third day he assaulted two teenage girls in the street.
Shortly afterwards he saw Deborah O’Sullivan walking home from a nightclub. Pulling her behind a wall, he tortured her for the next hour, burning her with his cigarette lighter and ripping her skin open with his bare hands. The 31-year-old woman begged for mercy but her 26-year-old attacker told her,
‘I’m going to kill you.’ He continued with the attack, sexually assaulting her and battering her with a litter bin. One of the blows broke her arm but the sadist still wasn’t satisfied and attempted twice to strangle her.
Beart then left the unconscious woman and gave himself up to the police saying, ‘I think I’ve killed her. This country should have the death penalty for people like me.’ Having achieved what he wanted from the assault, he was indifferent as to whether his victim lived or died.
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Sadistic Diversity
Police rushed to the scene and found Deborah alive but unrecognisable. She died in hospital three days later without regaining consciousness.
Paul Beart pleaded guilty on 5 November 2001 at Bristol Crown Court. The following day he was sentenced to life imprisonment with the recommendation that he never be released. He has now been assessed as an untreatable sexual sadist and psychopath.
DAVID JAMES COPELAND
In April 1999, David Copeland bombed residents in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho, causing death and horrific disfigurement.
Public interest centred on his racist agenda and, as a result, his underlying sadism was completely ignored.
Small in stature, David (born 15 May 1976) was bullied at school. His dyslexia went unrecognised and he was put into a remedial reading group. His genitals didn’t develop at a normal
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CHAPTER SIX
SADISTIC DIVERSITY
The British sadists in most of the previous profiles had distinct sexual preferences – Neville Heath, active in 1946, liked to whip young females. In contrast, Patrick Byrne, who murdered in 1959, fantasised about using a circular saw on girls.
Victor Miller, whose crimes spanned the 1970s and 1980s, preferred to beat his teenage male victims with a stick, and Colin Ireland, active in 1993, favoured slow suffocation of homosexual men.
Only the deeply disordered Anthony Anderson seems to have lacked a signature, using everything from picquerism (cutting for erotic purposes) to bludgeoning with a hammer and an axe.
But the following case studies illustrate just how wide-ranging sadistic fantasies and actions can be. One sadist maimed and killed his victims from a distance with nail bombs, another favoured ligature strangulation whilst a third had a razor fetish. These cases also show the various mental disorders which can accompany criminal sadism, as one was diagnosed as schizophrenic, one was a necrophile and most were sociopaths.
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SADISTIC KILLERS
PAUL BEART
Convicted of a horrific torture murder in 2002, Paul Beart illustrates the difficulty of treating an adult psychopath.
In 1997, he was jailed for a violent sexual attack on a young woman. Whilst incarcerated, Beart took part in a sex offenders rehabilitation course which he was deemed to have passed with flying colours. Intelligent and well read, a university drop-out, he was bright enough to give the authorities the answers they required.
Beart was freed in 2000 after serving just over half of his six-year sentence, a report saying that he’d ‘addressed his offending behaviour’ and was safe to be released on licence. He would kill within five months.
In April 2001, he left his home in Boston, Lincolnshire and travelled to Newquay in Cornwall, booking in to a beach resort where he knew there would be young women. For the first two days he stalked three such women, and on his third day he assaulted two teenage girls in the street.
Shortly afterwards he saw Deborah O’Sullivan walking home from a nightclub. Pulling her behind a wall, he tortured her for the next hour, burning her with his cigarette lighter and ripping her skin open with his bare hands. The 31-year-old woman begged for mercy but her 26-year-old attacker told her,
‘I’m going to kill you.’ He continued with the attack, sexually assaulting her and battering her with a litter bin. One of the blows broke her arm but the sadist still wasn’t satisfied and attempted twice to strangle her.
Beart then left the unconscious woman and gave himself up to the police saying, ‘I think I’ve killed her. This country should have the death penalty for people like me.’ Having achieved what he wanted from the assault, he was indifferent as to whether his victim lived or died.
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Police rushed to the scene and found Deborah alive but unrecognisable. She died in hospital three days later without regaining consciousness.
Paul Beart pleaded guilty on 5 November 2001 at Bristol Crown Court. The following day he was sentenced to life imprisonment with the recommendation that he never be released. He has now been assessed as an untreatable sexual sadist and psychopath.
DAVID JAMES COPELAND
In April 1999, David Copeland bombed residents in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho, causing death and horrific disfigurement.
Public interest centred on his racist agenda and, as a result, his underlying sadism was completely ignored.
Small in stature, David (born 15 May 1976) was bullied at school. His dyslexia went unrecognised and he was put into a remedial reading group. His genitals didn’t develop at a normal
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