Is there a cure for Britain's most dangerous criminals?

Is there a cure for Britain's most dangerous criminals?

Jeremy Laurance meets Dr Gwen Adshead, forensic psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital



Derek and Jean Robinson were a kindly couple who lived in a neat house in Heslington, York. He was a doctor and she worked for Christian Aid. It was the early 1970s; I was a student at the university, and my father, who knew them, had urged me to make contact. I spent a pleasant hour in their kitchen, chatting over coffee, and then took my leave, promising, as one does, to see them again soon. I never did. The next I heard, more than 30 years later, was that they had been murdered by a man with a psychopathic personality disorder who told police he wanted to become Britain's most prolific serial killer.