Kill Total: 9
Kill Dates 1975 - 1983
At the age of 54 Kelly decided he did not like tramps. This was odd, as he was a tramp himself! He disliked them so much he decided to kill them. Kelly, originally from Ireland, came to the UK in 1953. An alcoholic he first killed in 1975, killing a fellow drinker in a drunken brawl. By 1979, the time of his second killing, he was well known to the police for many offences, all relating to his inability to control his drinking. Kelly was acquitted of this murder, but, in 1983 he was again in the court, this time accused of attempted murder, when he tried to push a fellow drunk under a train, he was again acquitted. Later that year Kelly was drunk in a police cell, in the cell with him was a fellow vagrant, Kelly did not like the drunken singing of his comrade, and strangled him with his socks. He could clearly not deny this one, and, decided to confess. Police were astonished as Kelly admitted to 9 killing over the previous 30 years. One of the confessions and the one that he stood trial for was that of fellow drunk in a graveyard in 1975. Kelly was sentenced to life imprisonment. At his trial at the old Bailey a psychologist suggested that it would probably never be safe to release Kelly from prison and that he should spend the rest of his natural life behind bars.
