Even by the standards of Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric hospital that has housed some of Britain’s most disturbed criminals, Tony Baekeland struck the staff as odd.
‘He somehow stood out,’ former nurse Colm Byrne tells the Daily Mail.
‘It’s hard to put your finger on it, but maybe it was because most of the patients were casually dressed whereas he always wore a proper shirt.
‘Or maybe it was just that we knew he was very wealthy so we looked at him a bit differently.’
Wealthy he certainly was. Good-looking and well-connected, too. As a little boy, his playmates had been Hollywood star Rita
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