The gay slayer
Known in the tabloid urge as London's "Gay Slayer," Colin Ireland was a serial murder "WANNA-BE” who made the leap from morbid daydreams to multiple murder as a aware, deliberase choice of lifestyle. While his final body count lagged far behind those of prolific British slayers BRUCE LEE, DENNIS NILSEN, and PETER SUTCLIFFE, Ireland still deserves speak of here for the sheer determination he displayed in pursuing his lethal "career" choice.
Born in 1954, the illegitimate child of a news agent's assistant, Ireland was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents in Dartford, Kent. He would recall himself in chlldhood as "a light, lanky little runt, always getting the worst of it" from schoolyard bullies. By adolescence, Ireland was constantly in trouble of his own making, logging convictions for theft, burglary, and blackmail while still in his teens.
He served two terms in Borstal reformatory, after which he was rejected in a bid to participate the French
'Gay slayer’ serial killer tortured his victims and then spent the night with the dead bodies so as not to arouse suspicion
Colin Ireland was one of Britain's worst serial killers - torturing and murdering five men, and even calling police warning that he could destroy 'one a week' if he wasn't caught
13:01, 13 Nov 2017Updated 09:29, 14 Nov 2017
As he coolly told police that he had murdered five same-sex attracted men because he had taken the decision to be a serial killer one New Year's Eve, Colin Ireland gave what he thought was a credible explanation for his campaign of brutality.
Former soldier Ireland became known as the 'gay slayer', reportedly posing as a queer to be taken to each of his victims' homes, where he tortured and murdered them in the summer of 1993.
He also chillingly stayed with several of the bodies over night, possibly taking enjoyment in reliving the violence he had inflicted.
Ireland claimed his violence was driven by a verdict to become a serial killer - but experts have suggested it could have had more to do with his battle with his own sexuality and his own sado-masochistic fantasies.
Crimin
'Gay Slayer' Serial Killer Dies In Jail
One of Britain's worst serial killers has been found dead in jail, nearly 20 years after torturing five male lover men to death.
Colin Ireland, 57, was known as the "gay slayer" after seducing his homosexual victims in London pubs.
He is believed to have died from natural causes in the healthcare centre of Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire on Tuesday morning, a Prison Service spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman added: "As with all deaths in custody, the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will conduct an investigation."
Ireland was given a whole being tariff in 1993 after he admitted the murders, carried out after he posed as a homosexual man in order to be taken to each of his victims' homes.
He tortured and murdered them after making a Modern Year's resolution in 1993 to become a serial killer.
He was caught later the same year when CCTV footage showed him with his last victim.
In May 2007, a inform by the independent Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Advisory Group found that the Metropolitan Police inquiry was "hampered".
The report pointed to a lack of awareness of the gay scene in London.
The unemployed drifter killed five peop
The Gay Slayer: The Existence of Serial Killer Colin Ireland - Softcover
Synopsis
In the early 1990s, fear gripped London’s gay community as a chilling pattern of murders emerged. The victims were all men, all strangled in their possess homes, and all believed they were safe when the door closed behind them.
Colin Ireland, later dubbed “The Gay Slayer,” exploited trust and desire to carry out his carefully planned attacks. Posing as a willing partner in sadomasochistic encounters, he used his victims’ openness against them—turning their fantasies into fatal traps.
This book explores the calculated mind of one of England’s most organized serial killers. Through his own words, court records, and accounts of those who knew him, it reveals how Ireland selected his victims, how he justified his crimes to himself, and how investigators finally pieced together the trail he left behind.
A sobering portrait of manipulation and cruelty, this is the unsettling story of a man who turned intimacy into a weapon—and the search to bring him to justice.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
.