Dale Cregan is a psychotic killer imprisoned for life in June 2013, for the cold-blooded murders of PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone, whom he lured into a murderous trap with a bogus 999 call. Cregan claimed that he targeted the two officers because he blamed the Greater Manchester Police for victimising his family during their investigation of two earlier killings.
The murder of the police officers came only five weeks after Cregan had shot dead, David Short, the leader of a rival Manchester crime gang. Eleven weeks before that, Cregan had killed David Short’s son, Mark.
After his trial at Preston Crown Court, Cregan was sent to HMP Full Sutton near York. However, he is currently (February 2015) being held at Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital in Merseyside. He was moved there in September 2013, after going on hunger strike.
Inside Ashworth, Cregan is convinced that Hollywood film producers will pay a fortune for his story. The deluded killer has already selected Jason Statham to play himself in the film.
One of the staff at the top security hospital said: “He’s mistaken to think anyone would want his vile outpourings.
"He thinks he's some kind of underworld legend but in reality he's just a scumbag drug dealer from Manchester, who took the lives of two innocent women for the hell of it.”
This 6,800-word review gives an insight into Dale Cregan’s life and crimes, both as a study in its own right and as a stepping-stone to further research into the true crime genre.
Topics covered include:
• Introduction
• The Feud
• Mark Short
• David Short
• The Manhunt
• PC’s Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone
• Trial and Sentence
• Prison
True Crimes Series:
Armed Robbery
Levi Bellfield – The Bus Stop Stalker
David Berkowitz – The Son of Sam
Ted Bundy – The College Girl Killer
Buono and Bianchi – The Hillside Stranglers
John Christie – The 10 Rillington Place Murders
Dale Cregan – Gangland Enforcer
Jeffrey Dahmer – The Milwaukee Cannibal
Joanna Dennehy – The ‘Man-Woman’ Murderer
Ruth Ellis – The Last Woman to be Hanged
Kenneth Erskine – The Stockwell Strangler
Stephen Griffiths – The Crossbow Cannibal
John Haigh – The Acid Bath Murders
Brady and Hindley – The Moors Murderers
Colin Ireland – The Gay Slayer
Donald Neilson – The Black Panther
Dennis Nilsen – The Muswell Hill Murderer
Harold Shipman – Doctor Death
George Joseph Smith – Brides in the Bath
Peter Sutcliffe – The Yorkshire Ripper
Johann ‘Jack’ Unterweger – International Serial Killer
Fred and Rose West – The House of Horrors
Steve Wight – The Suffolk Strangler
Aileen Wuornos – The Hitchhiker From Hell
Australian Serial Killers
Criminals Who Kill
Female Serial Killers
Lesbian Serial Killers
Spree Killers
Whole Life Sentences
World’s Worse Serial Killers
The murder of the police officers came only five weeks after Cregan had shot dead, David Short, the leader of a rival Manchester crime gang. Eleven weeks before that, Cregan had killed David Short’s son, Mark.
After his trial at Preston Crown Court, Cregan was sent to HMP Full Sutton near York. However, he is currently (February 2015) being held at Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital in Merseyside. He was moved there in September 2013, after going on hunger strike.
Inside Ashworth, Cregan is convinced that Hollywood film producers will pay a fortune for his story. The deluded killer has already selected Jason Statham to play himself in the film.
One of the staff at the top security hospital said: “He’s mistaken to think anyone would want his vile outpourings.
"He thinks he's some kind of underworld legend but in reality he's just a scumbag drug dealer from Manchester, who took the lives of two innocent women for the hell of it.”
This 6,800-word review gives an insight into Dale Cregan’s life and crimes, both as a study in its own right and as a stepping-stone to further research into the true crime genre.
Topics covered include:
• Introduction
• The Feud
• Mark Short
• David Short
• The Manhunt
• PC’s Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone
• Trial and Sentence
• Prison
True Crimes Series:
Armed Robbery
Levi Bellfield – The Bus Stop Stalker
David Berkowitz – The Son of Sam
Ted Bundy – The College Girl Killer
Buono and Bianchi – The Hillside Stranglers
John Christie – The 10 Rillington Place Murders
Dale Cregan – Gangland Enforcer
Jeffrey Dahmer – The Milwaukee Cannibal
Joanna Dennehy – The ‘Man-Woman’ Murderer
Ruth Ellis – The Last Woman to be Hanged
Kenneth Erskine – The Stockwell Strangler
Stephen Griffiths – The Crossbow Cannibal
John Haigh – The Acid Bath Murders
Brady and Hindley – The Moors Murderers
Colin Ireland – The Gay Slayer
Donald Neilson – The Black Panther
Dennis Nilsen – The Muswell Hill Murderer
Harold Shipman – Doctor Death
George Joseph Smith – Brides in the Bath
Peter Sutcliffe – The Yorkshire Ripper
Johann ‘Jack’ Unterweger – International Serial Killer
Fred and Rose West – The House of Horrors
Steve Wight – The Suffolk Strangler
Aileen Wuornos – The Hitchhiker From Hell
Australian Serial Killers
Criminals Who Kill
Female Serial Killers
Lesbian Serial Killers
Spree Killers
Whole Life Sentences
World’s Worse Serial Killers
