Serial killer John Sweeney disgusted seasoned detectives with the gruesome details of his horrific crimes, but even they were shocked at the arrogance of his behaviour in court as he stood accused of murdering two former girlfriends.
Sweeney, who called himself the Scalp Hunter, butchered Melissa Halstead and Paula Fields before dumping them into canals in London and the Netherlands.
But in the dock at the Old Bailey in 2011, the killer, believed to have slaughtered even more women during a ‘demonic’ orgy of violence spanning decades, refused to listen to the damning evidence against him.
In an act of staggering arrogance, he
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