Coming to a town near you. Britain's forgotten serial killer: UK's longest-serving inmate who brutally murdered 11 people - including his own grandmother and a priest - is secretly moved to an open prison... and could soon walk FREE

Patrick Mackay enthralled the UK in the 1970s following a spree of gruesome murders in London and Kent
New photos show the various faces of the criminal who was once branded 'the most dangerous man in the UK'
New book revealed some of the gruesome murders and how Mackay befriended a priest before killing him
Mackay was born in 1952 and was raised in an abusive household and regularly beaten by his alcoholic father

Patrick Mackay had between three and 11 victims as not all were confirmed. He was sentenced to prison for life in 1975.

1965: Institutionalised for trying to set fire to a Catholic Church

1967: At the age of 15 Mackay was diagnosed as a psychopath by a psychiatrist, he was committed to Moss Side hospital for four years

1972: Released from hospital

1973: Befriends Father Anthony Crean and soon begins stealing from him

1973, July: Kills Heidi Mnilk, an au pair girl, by hurling her from a train near New Cross

1973, July: Mary Hynes beaten to death in her Kentish Town apartment

1974, January: Stephanie Britton and her four-year-old grandson were stabbed to death at Hadley Green, in Hertfordshire

1974, January: Tosses a homeless person from Hungerford Bridge

1974, February: invaded the Chelsea home of Isabella Griffith, strangling her to death and knifing her

1974: Bludgeoned a 62-year-old tobacconist to death

1974: Sarah Rodwell, age 92, was beaten to death on her doorstep in Hackney

1974: Ivy Davies, slain with an axe

1975: Kills Father Crean with an axe

1975, March: Strangles Adele Price

1975 March 23: Arrested

1975: Confesses, but not all crimes were charged to him

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