Landon: How’s it going Youtube?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and today I have a special guest from our sister channel
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Jack: What’s going on guys - you may recognise me from over at Top 5 Scary Videos - the scariest
channel on YouTube - may I add.
My name’s Jack Finch - and as always, it’s an absolute pleasure to be chilling with you
guys over at Most Amazing Top 10.
Landon: You guys are in for a scare because today we are talking about some
of Britain’s most dangerous and hideous criminals that have shocked the nation.
So here are the top 10 scariest British criminals.
Jack: Number 10 Charles Bronson.
Probably the most notorious British prisoner of all time - and a very apt entry to kick
off this list.
Bronson is so infamous in the British criminal world that he’s even been portrayed on the
silver screen by the one and only Tom Hardy.
Born Michael Gordon Peterson on the 6th December 1952 - he later changed his name to Charles
Bronson, after the famous American actor, while fighting in the British underground
bare-knuckle boxing scene.
Bronson has been referred to in the British Press as the most violent prisoner in Britain
- and has spent the majority of his life behind bars after initially being sentenced for armed
robbery in 1974.
Although he’s been released several times - Bronson has always ended up back behind
bars, and was given a discretionary life sentence in 1999.
Despite this, in recent years - Charles Bronson has changed his name to Charles Salvador,
after taking up life as an artist and reportedly turning over a new leaf.
He has pleaded his reform on numerous occasions - stating that Charles Bronson died in 2014,
and that he leads a new life as Charles Salvador, hoping to be released in 2020.
Landon: Harold Shipman makes it onto this list in at number 9.
He is the type of guy who will make you never trust your doctor again and here’s why.
He was a British general practitioner and serial killer who murdered at least 215 of
his patients.
His favourite method of killing his victims was to inject them with a lethal dose of drugs.
Originally, he was only convicted of 15 murders but after an official investigation was done,
it was determined that he had killed hundreds of other people between the years 1975-1998.
He was convicted in January 2000 and sentenced to life in prison but he was found hanging
in his cell four years after his trial.
Could he be anymore ironic?
I bet he killed more people than he saved as a doctor.
Jack: Number 8 Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
Strangely enough - another set of British Criminals that Tom Hardy has played on the
silver screen, this time twice.
The names Ronnie and Reggie Kray are synonymous with the British Underworld and London Gangland
- and you probably won’t find anyone in Britain who hasn’t heard of these pair.
They were notorious for being the perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London
during the 1950s and 1960s - alongside their gang known originally as The Firm - which
led them to be involved in such nefarious activities as murder, armed robbery, hijacking,
arson, protection racketing and countless assaults.
The Kray Twins were born on the 24th October 1933 - just ten minutes apart - to parents
Charles David Kray and Violet Annie Lee - and lived a life of such prolific notoriety that
they were cemented into British culture as two of the most dangerous brothers to have
ever lived.
Landon: Fred and Rose West hack their way into number 7.
They were a married couple who abducted, tortured, sexually abused and murdered women over a
period of 20 years.
Their killing spree also included some of their own children.
Their house on Cromwell Street contained an awful secret…their basement was set up as
a torture chamber and a graveyard.
The basement was equipped with bondage and torture devices and they had the ability to
hang their victims from the walls and ceiling.
Together, they might have killed around 30 women but they were only charged with 12 murders.
Fred West committed suicide before his trial started and Rose is currently serving a life
sentence without the possibility of parole.
Jack: Number 6 6 - Peter Sutcliffe
Also known as the Yorkshire Ripper - Peter Sutcliffe terrorised the British nation between
1975 and 1980, horrifying the public with the very specific conditions that his crimes
contained.
In 1981 - he was convicted of murdering 13 women - and suspected of the attempted murder
of seven more.
Sutcliffe, who lived in the Yorkshire areas of Leeds and Bradford - was believed to regularly
use the services of prostitutes - and claimed that the Voice of God had sent him on a mission
to kill these women.
The nation was shocked when his modus operandi would later change, and he began killing women
who weren’t prostitutes - which sent the Yorkshire public into a panic.
He was initially arrested for driving with false number plates, when police questioned
him about the killings on a chance encounter and he confessed to being the perpetrator.
Sutcliffe would later plead insanity - but his claim was later rejected and he was sentenced
to Life Imprisonment, where he remains to this day.
Landon: Next up on this creepy list in at number 5 we have Amelia Dyer.
She was originally trained as a nurse but she eventually switched her career path and
decided to take a stab at baby farming.
This was the practice of adopting unwanted babies in exchange for money.
She would prey on mothers who couldn’t afford to keep their babies so she offered to give
them a better life.
But instead, she pocketed the money and strangled the babies to death with tape and dumped their
bodies in the River Thames.
She was able to get a way with these horrific murders for over 30 years until she was caught
and hung or her crimes.
But she managed to murder at least 400 babies during her murdering spree in the 1800s.
Landon: Biting his way onto our list in at number 4, we have Stephen Griffiths.
He is notoriously known as the Crossbow Cannibal and his story almost sounds too crazy to be
real.
His favourite pastime included murdering women with a crossbow and then eating their body
parts.
He actually turned his bathroom into a slaughterhouse where he would dismember his victims in the
bathtub with power tools and then eat the best parts.
It was revealed that his favourite slabs of meat were from the thigh and he cooked them
on his stove and stored the rest in his fridge in case he got hungry.
He was actually diagnosed as a very violent psychopath at the age of 17 but despite all
of these warning signs and red flags, he managed to kill three women and now he is currently
serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Jack: Number 3 Dennis Nilsen
And - we’re about to head down the hole of one of the most gruesome serial killers
in British history - Dennis Nilsen - a Scottish serial killer and necrophile - who murdered
at least 12 young men - more than likely more - in a series of brutal and deranged killings
committed between 1978 and 1983.
All of which took place at several of his residences in London, England.
Nilsen’s modus operandi often targeted young, homeless homosexual men - which he lured to
his two North London addresses through guile and deception, often plying them with alcohol
- and then murdering them by strangulation.
He kept the bodies beneath his floorboards - sometimes for periods as long as 8 months
- and would then observe the bodies in strange, twisted rituals.
He would dispose of the remains after dissecting them - by either burning them on a bonfire
or rushing down a toilet.
His crimes were discovered when a plumber eventually discovered the remains of bones
and flesh blocking the pipes of his shared flat - and he was sentenced to life in prison,
where he died in 2018 at the age of 72.
Landon: Jack The Ripper brings us to number 2.
Jack the Ripper is one of England’s and the world’s most infamous murderers because
he was never captured and his identity remains unknown.
He terrorized the Whitechapel district of London in 1888 where he brutally murdered
and mutilated at least five prostitutes.
In each of his murders, the victims’ throat would be slashed and the body would be severely
mutilated which indicated that he had some knowledge about human anatomy.
Despite several investigations, the police had hundreds of suspects but they weren’t
able to definitively arrest anyone.
So even till this day, Jack The Rippers identity and motive remains one of the world’s biggest
mysteries.
Jack: Number 1 Mary Ann Cotton
And to finally end this gruesome list - we have one of Britain’s first recorded female
serial killers - Mary Ann Cotton.
Known as The Black Widow - Cotton is reported to have murdered around 21 people - including
three of her own husbands - apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies
- which she would use to establish a new life - and even more horrifically, she was responsible
for the death of 11 of her 13 children.
Born Mary Ann Robson on the 31st October 1832 - yup, Halloween - in County Durham, England
- Cotton’s modus operandi was to use arsenic poisoning - learned from her time as a nurse
- that would slowly cause gastric pain in her victims and ensure a rapid decline of
health.
Mostly undetectable - until it appeared that almost everyone Mary Ann Cotton knew started
to die around her.
It kind of raised a few red flags.
She was trialed and sentenced to death by hanging on the 24th of March 1873 - where
she died on the gallows, not by her neck breaking - but by strangulation caused by the rope
being rigged too short.
Many believe that this action was deliberate.
Gnarly stuff.