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Name: |
Ian
Kay |
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AKA: |
Woolworths Killer |
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D.O.B: |
1967 |
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Kill
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1 |
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Kill
date: |
November 1994 |
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Kill
Place: |
Teddington, London |
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Victim: |
John Penfold |
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D.O.B: |
1973 |
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External References
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FACTFILE
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".
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