Kenneth Erskine was born on 1 July 1963 and is a British serial killer who became known as The Stockwell Strangler.
16 Facts About Kenneth Erskine
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Kenneth Erskine was abandoned by both parents during childhood and attended various special schools.
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Kenneth Erskine was able to open ten separate bank accounts with the proceeds of his crimes.
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Kenneth Erskine's death was initially believed to have been due to natural causes and declared as such by her doctor on her death certificate.
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Kenneth Erskine's death was initially thought to have been from natural causes.
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Kenneth Erskine later broke into the residence of an elderly man, but Erskine abandoned this burglary when a noise disturbed him enough to make him flee.
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On 28 June 1986, Kenneth Erskine killed his third and fourth victims at a residential home in Stockwell, one of them a World War II veteran: Valentine Gleim, 84, and Zbigniew Strabawa, 94.
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Kenneth Erskine stole money from Carman's flat before molesting him and strangling him in an attack on 8 July 1986.
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Kenneth Erskine claimed his sixth victim on 21 July 1986, when he similarly attacked 74-year-old William Downes in a Stockwell bedsit.
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Kenneth Erskine was found dead by the caretaker on the morning of 23 July 1986.
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Kenneth Erskine was arrested on 28 July 1986 at a social security office.
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Police were then able to match his palm print to one left at one of the murder scenes, and he was identified in a police lineup by 74-year-old Fred Prentice, who claimed Kenneth Erskine tried to strangle him in his bed a month before police apprehended him.
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Kenneth Erskine was found guilty of seven murders in January 1988 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 40 years but has since been found to have a mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Horne concludes that, at the time of the assessment, Kenneth Erskine had chronic schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder and that this had probably been the case since March 1980.
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On 23 February 1996, Kenneth Erskine saved the life of a fellow serial killer Peter Sutcliffe.
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Kenneth Erskine and convicted murderer Jamie Devitt intervened upon hearing screams.