Name: Broadmoor: For The Criminally Insane
Released: 2024-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Available on Channel 5

Former patients and staff reveal insights and stories about Broadmoor Hospital. From untold secrets, to historic accounts of staff brutality, and first-hand testimony from former staff on patient violence, and even murder within its high walls.

Documentary · 2024 · 1 hr

Director Tom Harrad

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

A former patient recalls his seven years at Broadmoor, after being diagnosed with mental illness, sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He started life in the Admissions Ward as he showed signs of progress and recovery.

1 hr · 21 Oct 2024
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Exploring the dangers posed to both staff and patients, including when Lee Rigby's killer Michael Adebowale assaulted a nurse, and how Peter Sutcliffe was violently attacked three times.

54 min · 28 Oct 2024
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Dr Tony Maden explains how he was pleased with what they achieved with the DPSD Unit, keeping dangerous men off Britain's streets. Dr Bill Kirkup reveals details of an inquiry into Jimmy Savile's time at Broadmoor.

1 hr 18 min · 4 Nov 2024
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Convicted of murder, the East End gangster Ronnie Kray was sent to Broadmoor in 1979 after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Maureen Flanagan organised a petition to try and get the Kray twins released.

54 min · 11 Nov 2024