Britain's Most Evil Killers

In January 2009, Lakhvir Singh poisoned her former lover and his fiancée. The deadly plot, driven by jealousy and revenge, ended in tragedy.

In 2011, Attila lured Alice and Tibor to his flat. Within hours, both were dead. Police uncover a shocking story of jealousy, obsession and cold-blooded murder.

In 1979, Sally Ann McGrath vanished in Peterborough. Decades later, cold case detectives exposed Paul Taylor as her killer after years of hiding his crimes.

How, in 1985, George Naylor strangled Deborah Kershaw just weeks after being freed from prison for rape, revealing him as a dangerous predator who should never have been free.

A profile of Wilbert Dyce, who killed a woman and her two daughters in east London in 1982, but was not identified as the killer until a cold case review was opened in 2009.

A profile of murderer Barry Prudom, also known as the 'Phantom of the Forest', who became the subject of, at the time, the largest manhunt in British history.

A profile of convicted killer David Baxendale, who stabbed a mother of three to death before fleeing to Spain.

A profile of Paul McNaughton, who lured a retired school teacher to his death through a dating app in 2022.

A profile of murderer Barry Prudom, also known as the 'Phantom of the Forest', who became the subject of, at the time, the largest manhunt in British history

Experts examine the character and actions of Adam Whelehan who, in 2012, murdered his girlfriend Natalie Jarvis by stabbing her 20 times in the neck.

An investigation into the death of Mhairi Julyan, a 16 year-old from Kilmarnock, Scotland, who was found dead in a bus depot in 1995 with 47 separate injuries to her head, body and limbs after being strangled and sexually assaulted by Gavin McGuire.

Across three countries, over four decades, Robert Howard preyed on vulnerable women - leaving two teenage victims dead.

Mary McLaughlin's violent death haunted Glasgow detectives, with no witnesses and no forensic leads - but new techniques revealed a killer.

Three victims murdered, a string of robberies and a killer with nothing to lose - can the police catch Anthony Russell before he strikes again?

Ten years after Laura May Al-Shatanawi met Hassan Al Shatanawi in Egypt, she became the devoted mother of a little boy, but she vanished without a trace.

After leaving Maria, his bigamous wife, Malcolm Pearson and his innocent fiancé Janet discovered just how dangerous his ex really was.

When Charlotte Murray didn't show up to spend her 34th birthday with her twin sister, their family knew something was seriously wrong.

When two women vanished, the cases weren't connected, until forensic evidence at Derek Brown's home proved their fates were violently intertwined.

When Christopher McGowan was bailed to Claire's home after yet another offence, the innocent woman became trapped in the orbit of a violent man.

When Carol Jarvis vanished, doubts grew over her husband Harry's story - and sinister letters he sent his mistress did little to support his lies. 

In 2003, Jane Longhurst vanished. Her body was found weeks later and police soon closed in on Graham Coutts, who Jane had planned to meet.

In 1997, Nicholas Burton murdered Rachel McGrath before abducting a student. After a complex trial, the killer was handed three life sentences.

A case highlighting the dangers of online grooming, in which 14-year-old Breck Bednar was lured to a London flat before being killed by a fellow teenager.

The story of 30-year-old church warden Ben Field, who was jailed in 2019 for the murder of Peter Farquhar, 69, whom he duped into a fake relationship and persuaded to change his will, before drugging him with a cocktail of pills.

After a teenager's disappearance, a huge search campaign results in a truly depraved case striking at the very heart of a family.

Experts looks back on the crimes of John Cannan as he moved in and out of prison.

A fugitive from the United States murders one British police officer and tries to kill two more, sparking a nationwide search.

Jailed for the dreadful murder of a children's author, Ian Stewart receives a second conviction for the death of his wife, six years earlier.

On the surface, he portrayed himself as a pillar of the community, but the story of this cult killer was deeply sinister.

After striking up a friendship in prison for previous murders, Stephen Unwin and William McFall's release had awful consequences

Thirty-two years later, a convicted killer serving life for manslaughter is found to be guilty of having committed a second murder.

The story of Stuart Campbell, who was convicted of the murder of his 15-year-old niece in 2002, even though her body has never been found

The story of Trimaan Harry Dhillon, who attacked his ex-girlfriend in a jealous frenzy and committed a brutal murder after a campaign of harassment.

The story of Jamie Reynolds, the 23-year-old killer who murdered 17-year-old former head girl Georgia Williams in 2013.

The story of Sarah Williams and Katrina Walsh, friends who carried out the evil, jealousy-fuelled murder of businesswoman Sadie Hartley

The chilling story of Lee Ford, who killed his wife and four stepchildren in a cold-blooded murder spree over 24 hours in September 2000

The story of 27-year-old Pawel Relowicz, who raped and killed 21-year-old Hull student Libby Squire in a case that made headlines around the UK.

British killer Daniel Gonzalez, also known as the Freddy Krueger Killer, who took four lives during a chilling two-day murder spree in 2004 after being inspired by horror films. He eventually commited suicide in his room in Broadmoor Hospital.

The story of serial killer Geoffrey Evans and his accomplice John Shaw, who hit headlines in 1976 after the murders of two women in Ireland

The chilling story of Mark Martin, who murdered three homeless women in his quest to become Nottingham's first serial killer

A profile of the man who murdered his wife, two children and two dogs on one terrifying day.

The case of Billy Dunlop, who killed 22-year-old Julie Hogg, and went on to become the first person to be convicted under revised UK double-jeopardy laws.

Russell Bishop, the man convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering two nine-year-old girls from Brighton in 1986, a crime that shocked the nation.

The story of 21-year-old Anthony Arkwright from South Yorkshire, who in 1988 went on a killing spree in which he murdered three people - including his own grandfather.

A profile of the cold-blooded killer John Sweeney, nicknamed the Canal Killer due to the places he dumped the body parts of his victims.

A look at the crimes of Andrzej Kunowski, a man so vicious he was nicknamed the Beast after raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl in 1997.

The story of Hartlepool man Arthur Hutchinson, who achieved notoriety in 1984 when he broke into a Sheffield home and took the lives of three family members in a senseless killing.

Peter Moore, the killer dubbed `The Man In Black", a murderer who took the lives of four innocent men for fun.

A profile of the double-killer who branded himself the 'Angel of Mercy', after murdering two of his neighbours in cold blood.

A chilling look at Vincent Tabak, the man responsible for one of the biggest police investigations in Bristol - the cold-blooded murder of Joanna Yeates.

A look at the Scottish serial killer Robert Black, who preyed on young girls between the ages of five and 11 throughout a six-year killing spree.

A profile of Angus Sinclair, the man responsible for the murder of two teenage girls in 1977, known as the World's End Murders.

A look at the Welsh serial killer known to some as The Wildman, who got four life sentences for a string of gruesome murders and sexual assaults.

He decided to become a serial killer and brutally snatched away the lives of five innocent men. This is the story of calculated murderer.

A look at the convicted double-murderer responsible for taking the lives of Becky Godden-Edwards in 2007 and Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.

The story of Derrick Bird, the perpetrator of one of the worst firearm crimes in British history. After killing 12 people in Cumbria, he then turned the gun on himself.

The story of Mark Hobson, who became Britain's most wanted man and the target of a nationwide manhunt after four murders.

In 2012, April Jones disappeared from outside her home in Wales. Her abductor, and murderer, was found to be Mark Bridger.

Serial rapist Stephen Port, who murdered at least four men using gay social networks to find his victims - for which he earned himself the nickname "The Grindr Killer"

What drove Raoul Moat to shoot his ex-girlfriend, her new lover and a policeman, leading to the largest manhunt in modern British history?

A profile of child killer Roy Whiting, the convicted sex offender who abducted and murdered eight-year-old Sarah Payne.

A profile of the two murderers who terrorised Britain in the 1980s with a string of attacks near railway stations.

A profile of the former aspiring model who stabbed her fiance 42 times, before blaming the attack on a fictional road rage assailant.

Known as the 'Sunderland Strangler', Steven Grieveson murdered four teenage boys before his capture. But what was his motive?

The case of the cannibal cop killer, Stefano Brizzi, who murdered and consumed part of a police officer he met through a dating app.

Profiling the Italian killer, jailed for murdering and mutilating his Bournemouth neighbour, Heather Barnett, in 2002.