Britain's Deadliest Prisoners: Series 2

Six men the prison system could not hold: contract killers, enforcers and the most feared names on the wing.

  1. John Bindon: Gangland Enforcer and Actor · John Bindon was a man of violence at a time when Britain had no shortage of them, and his name still stands out. He was an actor, a celebrity hard man and a fixture of fashionable London, and he was a man other dangerous
  2. John Childs: A Ruthless Contract Killer? · John Childs confessed to six murders. There were no bodies. There was a meat mincer, a fireplace in a council flat in Poplar, and a confession so detailed and so cold that experienced detectives were shaken by it. Years
  3. Frank Mitchell: Too Dangerous for the Krays · On Christmas Eve 1966, Britain's most dangerous escaped prisoner climbed into a van in East London because he believed Ronnie Kray was waiting for him. Frank Mitchell had spent years fighting prison officers and escaping
  4. Lee Newell: The Predator Who Kills Inside Prison · Some men treat prison as a hunting ground. Lee Newell has been in continuous custody since January 1989, more than two thirds of his life, and in that time he has killed twice more. Both of his victims in prison were men
  5. Jimmy Moody: The Life of a Gangland Enforcer · The authorities called Jimmy Moody a hired gun. Six foot and eighteen stone, he was an enforcer for the Richardsons, a friend to the Krays and Frankie Fraser's closest ally. He opened armoured vans with a chainsaw, went
  6. The Gangland Informer Who Massacred an Innocent Family · Some criminals will kill for money. Very few would kill an entire family to take a business. Kenneth Regan did. He was a high-level drug trafficker who informed on his own associates to buy an early release from prison,