Age: 15
Sex: male
Crime: manslaughter (repeat offender)
End Of Full Sentence:
Place: Colchester and Broadmoor
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Alan Reeve was convicted of killing Roger Barry Jackson 15 in Castle Park, Colchester in August 1964 and sent to Broadmoor later in 1964.
While in broadmoor in 1967 he killed William Thomas Doyle and was convicted of his manslaughter.
On 9 August 1981 he escaped from Broadmoor with a child killer after they scaled the 18 feet inner walls with a grappling hook attached to a makeshift rope made of knotted sheets.
After escaping from Broadmoor he fled to Holland where he killed a policemen and injured another. He was jailed in Holland until August 1992 when he was set free. In November 1993 the Home Offices attempted to extradite him to return to the UK to continue his sentence in Broadmoor. However fter being released a Dutch court ruled that he was no longer a danger and he was offered a top job with a Dutch prisoners' rights pressure group, Coornhert Liga, after qualifying as a lawyer while in jail. However he was later extradited in 1997 from Cork in Ireland and returned to Broadmoor.
Roger Jackson was on a cycling holiday, touring youth hostels when Alan Reeve killed him. After he used three postcards that he found on Roger Jackson and sent them to his parents with the acronym DOA written on them.
He strangled William Doyle after a row in the common room at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.
His medical report from Winchester prison stated that from an early age he had shown aggressive and violent tendencies and at 9 years of age he tried to shoot his father with a revolver. At 12 he was caught for shop lifting and larceny and at 13 he was convicted for demanding money with menaces. In January 1964 he was sent to borstal for housebreaking from where he later absconded. He then planned to go to Colchester to kill 4 people who he believed had harmed his brother. When he arrived in Colchester he killed Roger Jackson instead after knowing him for a day. The report inferrs that he substituted Roger Jackson for his orininally intended targets.
Before he went to borstal he said he fascinated with knives and guns and thoughts of killing and had admitted to using violence on animals having shot two dogs, strangling a cat and using an axe on another. Among his prison notes from 1964 were drawings and writings connected with black magic and writings stated that he had dedicated himself to Satan whose work he would do while on earth. He stated that his philosophy was in accord with Satan was to 'Do what you want'.
Amonst his Broadmoor notes shown at his 1967 trial included:
see National Archives - ASSI 6/439, ASSI 36/420
see Independent
see BBC
see Wikipedia
see OUR CORRESPONDENT. "Boy Of 15 For Trial On Murder Charge." Times [London, England] 8 Sept. 1964: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 30 Sept. 2015.
see "Murder By Request, Magistrates Told." Times [London, England] 17 Oct. 1967: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 21 Dec. 2015.
see OUR CORRESPONDENT. "Mystery death at Broadmoor." Times [London, England] 11 Sept. 1967: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 Dec. 2015.
Note photos are of Broadmoor for 1967 trial for the manslaughter of William Doyle