FARRANT, VICTOR: Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On 7th February 1996 15-year-old Katie Hoskins arrived home from school to discover her mother had vanished. Later that night Katie checked the converted loft of their house in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where she made a horrifying discovery. Her [Glenda’s] killer was Victor Farrant, a 46-year-old convicted rapist who had attacked another woman six weeks earlier. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s5e2, Pick TV 2020
A six-month international manhunt discovered him hiding out in Nice, France. ibid.
Brighton: it was here that a dangerous pattern of behaviour surfaced in this nomadic fantasist. ibid.
In 1988 39-year-old Farrant received an 11-year sentence for rape, false imprisonment and GBH. He also received an additional 1 year sentence for a further attack on another woman with a bread knife. ibid.
FARROW, CHRISTOPHER: Forensics: Catching a Killer TV -
In an ordinary town the most extraordinary of murders. A woman [Wendy Speakes] killed in her own home and a family torn apart. And a search for a killer that took years and revealed a history of attacks. Forensics: Catching the Killer s2e5: The Shoe Fetish Murder, Sky Crime 2023
Wakefield, 15th March 1994: Police now had an idea of what Wendy’s potential killer looked like. ibid.
Wendy Speakes had been raped and stabbed to death. ibid.
‘When the DNA evidence was put to him [Christopher Farrow] and the fingerprint evidence, he admitted it.’ ibid. rozzer
FARROW, LYNDA murder: The Playboy Bunny Murder TV -
In 1979, 29-year-old Lynda Farrow was found murdered in circumstances eerily similar to Eve’s: she’d been a croupier at a casino which like the Playboy club was in London’s West End. She’d had her throat cut in her own home just four miles from where Eve was killed. The Playboy Bunny Murder I, ITV 2023
Meanwhile, Paul [Farrow] had lost his family and his job at the casino. ibid.
FARROW, STEPHEN: When Life Means Life TV - The Independent online - BBC online - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
A man who sparked a nationwide manhunt. A diagnosed psychopath. Who repaid people’s kindness with madness. And had a burning hatred of religion. Stephen Farrow was a man on a mission. Who would stop at nothing to exact a chilling revenge on the Church. When Life Means Life s2e4, CI 2012
Stephen Farrow, 48, travelled the country widely and frequently, carrying his belongings with him in a rucksack and sleeping rough.
He had an unstable childhood and was described as an ‘uncontrollable child’ who took pleasure in killing people’s pets and shooting a swan with an air gun ...
Farrow had tried to convince those that assessed him that he was ‘not just psychotic’, but there was ‘something more’ – a claim he hoped would help his defence.
Despite his efforts the jury saw through his facade and found that he was not insane, that he knew what he was doing, that he knew the difference between right and wrong and that he did what he did as a matter of choice. The Independent online article Emma Hallett 2nd November 2012, ‘Stephen Farrow – the psychopath who lived on society’s fringe’
Stephen Farrow has been the subject of a large number of psychiatric reports throughout his life.
Reports read to Bristol Crown Court during his trial for the murders of the Rev John Suddards and Betty Yates showed he had been hyperactive and subject to outbursts from an early age.
He was found guilty on 2 November of murdering both Mr Suddards, 59, from Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, and Mrs Yates, 77, from Bewdley in Worcestershire.
Two psychiatrists who assessed him for the trial both said he had a psychopathic personality disorder. BBC online article 2nd November 2012
On 4th January 2012 in the English market town of Bewdley, Worcestershire, the body of 77-years-old grandmother Betty Yates was discovered in her isolated cottage along the banks of the River Severn. Her killer vanished without a trace. Betty’s murderer was 47-year-old Stephen Farrow, a homeless drifter. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s5e1: Stephen Farrow, Pick TV 2020
This time his victim was a parish vicar. Driven by selfless greed he showed no remorse for the crimes he committed. He ruthlessly beat, stabbed and killed two elderly victims, and left another scarred for life. ibid.
FAWLEY, BENJAMIN: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
A sick and twisted discovery. Was it a sexual encounter that got out of hand? Was she attracted to the dark side? Or a cold-blooded act of violence? What really happened to Taylor Behl? … Taylor is mysteriously missing … during her first week of college, 2005. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s4e3: Taylor’s Tale, CI 2013
And her friend Ben Fawley who leant her a skateboard said he was the victim of an attack late that evening. ibid.
This is an older guy pretending to be a younger guy. ibid.
‘Ben Fawley and Taylor Behl had had a sexual relationship.’ ibid. rozzer
Ben is arrested for possession of child pornography. ibid.
Sure enough, in the undergrowth they find Taylor Behl’s badly decomposed body. ibid.
FELDMAN, DOUGLAS: Werner Herzog on Death Row TV - Douglas Feldman -
The Death Penalty exists in 33 states of the United States of America ... I respectfully disagree. Werner Herzog on Death Row, Discovery 2014
This is Douglas Feldman ... Since his conviction, he has spent the last thirteen years here. ibid.
Then it becomes biomass. That’s you. When you die. It’s just over. Douglas Feldman on Death Row
FELL, PETER: Trial & Error TV -
The tip-off about the motiveless murder of two women on Aldershot Common came within hours of the crime. It was almost two weeks before detectives acting on the call made contact with the local man accused in it. It was more than a year before they decided to arrest him, and even then they didn’t believe his incoherent confession and let him go. But today that man is entering the tenth year of a life sentence for a double murder. Trial & Error: Peter Fell, Channel 4 1994
On three separate days Peter Fell rang the police to incriminate himself. ibid.
Both of them [dog-walkers] were to be stabbed to death in a vicious and sudden attack.
No-one seemed to take Fell seriously as a murder suspect. ibid.
When the jury failed to take up the judge’s suggestion and accept his bank alibi the case was lost for Peter Fell. ibid.
The trial of Peter Fell was corrupted by error, irregularity and in the case of one key witness perjury. ibid.