He was on the run for the murder of a 14-year-old boy for 33 years – and was not arrested even when he committed further sexual offences. It would take advances in DNA testing to put him behind bars for the rest of his days.
He was a serial rapist in his native Poland but was able to come to Britain to continue his depraved crime spree unchecked. Katerina Koneva, 12, is just one of many victims who have paid for lax border and immigration controls with their lives.
Driven by his own physical inadequacy, railway engineer Antoni Imiela stalked the area around the M25 claiming eight victims aged between 10 and 52 in a year-long reign of terror. Imiela claimed he could not be responsible because even though he had been married for eight years he was in fact gay.
Few criminal acts can be more henious than the practice of necrophillia. Fortunately those depraved enough to indulge in it are rare. Graham Coutts was one who did.
Sexual deviant Garath Davies murdered jogger Egeli Rasta and stripped her naked in his den before using her phone to download violent hip hop tracks and porn pictures.
Sally Anne Bowman, 17, dreamed of being a successful model until her life was taken by necrophiliac Mark Dixie yards from her front door.
