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Kill Total: |
1 |
Kill place: |
Teddington, London |
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Kill date: |
November 1994 |
Victim(s): |
John Penfold |
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Date of Birth: |
1967 |
Marital Status: |
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AKA: |
Woolworths Killer |
Occupation: |
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Kay was sentenced, in
1995, for a minimum term of 22 years imprisonment for the
murder of John Penfold aged 21, a Woolworth's shop
assistant.
Kay stabbed him to death in
Teddington, Middlesex, in November 1994. Kay was on leave
from prison, almost eight years after nearly killing
another shop worker in a similar attack, when he killed
Penfold, whom he described as a "Have a go hero who got
what he deserved". Kay had stabbed Mr Penfold
through the heart with a kitchen knife before grabbing two
50p coins from the till which he dropped as he ran to a
nearby car.
Kay was sentenced to be
detained in a secure mental hospital indefinitely. The
recommended minimum term given at his trial would keep him
behind bars until at least 2017 and the age of 50.
10th March 1997 Kay attacked
Peter Sutcliffe,
he was stabbed in both eyes in a fight at the Broadmoor Hospital. It is believed that Sutcliffe was in his room in Henley Ward when he was attacked. Ian Kay
stabbed The Ripper with a fibre-tipped pen, the type used
in drawing classes at the hospital.
28th January 1998,
Kay admitted to stabbing Sutcliffe, adding attempted
murder to his long list of convictions. In no uncertain
terms, Kay told the court he had meant to attack The
Yorkshire Ripper with a razor embedded in a toothbrush
handle. "I was going to ... walk into the room and cut his
jugular vein on both sides and wait there until he was
dead. Killing has always been in my mind, ever since I've
been here (at Broadmoor). In hindsight I should have
straddled him and strangled him with my bare hands... He
said God told him to kill 13 women, and I say the devil
told me to kill him because of that."
