Britain's Forgotten Killer

The Crimes of Patrick Mackay

De: Mark Stokes

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the quiet streets of 1970s Britain, a chilling shadow stalked some of London’s most affluent neighbourhoods and the peaceful villages of Kent — a terror that would forever be buried by time and obscurity. Britain’s Forgotten Killer: The Crimes of Patrick Mackay peels back the layers of one of the most disturbing and overlooked serial murder cases in British criminal history. At its heart is Patrick David Mackay — a psychopathic, violent man whose spree of brutality spanned mugging, robbery, and cold-blooded murder, leaving detectives baffled and communities shattered. From his early life marked by psychological disturbance to a chilling tale of escalating violence, this book presents the full arc of a criminal mind that British history almost let slip into obscurity.

Mackay’s crimes — from the savage killing of elderly women in their own homes to the gruesome axe murder of Father Anthony Crean — were as shocking as they were methodical. When police finally arrested him in 1975, they uncovered a catalogue of violence that raised unsettling questions about how many lives he truly touched. Though convicted of three killings, Mackay confessed to multiple others, some of which match unsolved murders that once terrorised London’s streets and train lines. This book chronicles the evidence, the confessions, and the mysteries that still cling to this case more than forty years later.

Written for true crime enthusiasts and readers captivated by criminal psychology and unsolved mysteries, Britain’s Forgotten Killer not only reconstructs the crimes of Patrick Mackay but also examines the societal and investigative factors that allowed much of his reign of terror to fade from public memory. With vivid reporting and deep insight, this gripping account restores the forgotten victims to the centre of their own stories and challenges readers to confront a truth as unsettling now as it was then.