Age: 24 (died in prison aged 42)
Sex: male
Crime: murder (repeat offender)
Date Of Sentence: 22 Jun 1972 (for 18 years, 1 month, 10 days)
Died In Prison: 1 Aug 1990
Place: Bovingdon, Hertfordshire
Source: www.murderuk.com
Graham Young was convicted of the murders of Robert Egle, Frederick Biggs, David Tilson and Jethro Batt.
He was first convicted of killing his step-mother who he poisoned over a long period with antimony and thallium and trying to poison his father, sister and a friend and was sent to Broadmoor in 1962 and later released in 1971.
When he was released he went to a government training centre where he attempted to poison a 34 year old.
Later he got a job as a general assistant at a photographic laboratory in Bovingdon Hertfordshire where he was the tea boy. People around him began to fall ill, an illness known as the Bovingdon Bug. Both Bob Egle the storeroom manager and Fred Biggs the distribution manager died.
Graham Young was arrested on 21 November 1971 and in June 1972 convicted of the murders of Bob Egle and Fred Biggs and the attempted murders of two other people.
He later died on 1 August 1990 in Parkhurst Prison of a heart attack aged 42.
see National Archives - J 82/2444, DPP 2/5062, DPP 2/5063, J 271/48
see Our Correspondent. "Witness in poison case says that accused storeman gave him 'recipe for death' in conversation." Times [London, England] 22 June 1972: 4. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 Mar. 2014.
see Our Correspondent. "Life sentence on storeman who killed by poison after release from Broadmoor." Times [London, England] 30 June 1972: 4. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 Mar. 2014.
see Sickchirpse
see Hemel Today
see Ewbankauctions
see Daily Mirror Fri 30 Jun 1972 Page 13
