Who are The Railway Killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy?

THE Channel 5 documentary bid tells the gripping communicative of serial killers David Mulcahy and John Duffy.

Dubbed The Railway Killers, the intersexual predators were liable for a spree of horrific attacks successful the 1980s.

Who is Railway Killer John Francis Duffy?

John Duffy, calved 1959, was a brutal rapist and killer who attacked lone women astatine railway stations passim southeast England and London.

He was astatine archetypal thought to person carried retired his heinous crimes unsocial and was sentenced to beingness imprisonment for the murders.

Duffy and David Mulcahy had been life-long friends since their schoolhouse days successful North London.

Both men are said to person been victims of bullying portion schoolboys.

Duffy aboriginal joined and became a martial arts fanatic.

He was already known to the cops owed to an battle connected his woman and helium was recovered carrying a knife.

It is thought the pair attacked astatine slightest 19 women, sidesplitting 3 of them.

On July 1, 1982, Duffy and Mulcahy attacked and raped a pistillate adjacent to Hampstead Station successful London's Hampstead village.

For the adjacent 12 months women were assaulted crossed London and its suburbs.

In a bid to drawback the culprit – initially, they weren’t definite if the crimes were carried retired by conscionable 1 idiosyncratic – police acceptable up Operation Hart, the largest investigation to instrumentality spot successful the UK since the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry.

In the autumn of 1983, the attacks abruptly stopped, with constabulary aboriginal uncovering retired this coincided with Duffy's separation from his wife.

The attacks started up again successful aboriginal 1984.

In July 1985, 3 women were brutally raped connected the aforesaid night, each successful the Hendon and Hampstead area.

Duffy and Mulcahy were brought successful for questioning but were yet released.

However, successful August 1985, aft a bout of home unit astatine his home, wherever helium attacked his wife, Duffy was arrested.

In September 1985, a pistillate was attacked successful Barnet with the unfortunate giving cops a statement of her attacker that fitted Duffy’s profile.

He was brought successful for questioning erstwhile again but was yet fto spell aft the unfortunate failed to recognise him successful an individuality parade.

On December 29, 1985, Alison Day, 19, was dragged disconnected a bid by Duffy and Mulcahy astatine knifepoint and raped repeatedly.

She was past strangled with a portion of string.

It was the archetypal clip the brace had killed their victim, fearing that she would easy place the pair.

Maartje Tambozer, 15, was abducted from Horsley presumption successful East Surrey connected April 17, 1986.

After being raped and strangled, the teenager's assemblage was acceptable connected fire.

On May 18, the unfortunate was section TV presenter Anne Locke, 29, who was abducted arsenic she got disconnected a bid successful Hertfordshire and aboriginal murdered.

In October 1986, a 14-year-old schoolgirl managed to past aft she was raped by some men.

While stalking a pistillate successful a parkland connected November 7, Duffy was discovered and arrested.

The adjacent day, helium was charged with 3 murders and 7 counts of rape.

Mulcahy was besides arrested but aboriginal released owed to deficiency of evidence.

Duffy was enactment connected proceedings successful February 1988 and was convicted of 2 murders and 4 rapes, though helium was acquitted of raping and sidesplitting Anne Locke.

He was fixed a minimum condemnation of 30 years by the judge.

Who is Railway Killer David Mulcahy?

Cops besides suspected Mulcahy had been progressive for respective years but didn’t person the grounds to complaint him.

It was lone aft Duffy implicated him 15 years aft helium had been convicted could they act.

Mulcahy, a joined begetter of four, had been tracked for respective months by constabulary earlier his arrest.

DNA tests which were not utilized successful the archetypal proceedings but were present disposable managed to supply the grounds to convict Mulcahy.

He stood proceedings successful 2000 with Duffy appearing arsenic a witness, giving graphic grounds implicit 14 days.

A erstwhile worker astatine a cab steadfast helium worked astatine said helium despised women.

Lola Barry, a controller astatine the company, said: "He liked women to beryllium astatine the room descend wherever they should be, oregon successful bed."

She said Mulcahy had erstwhile crept up down her successful the office.

Barry said: "He really got maine circular the neck, saying 'How does that feel, are you scared?'"

Prosecutor Mark Dennis said astatine Mulcahy's trial: "As they fed their newfound predilections they treated their victims arsenic objects alternatively than persons."

It was "only a comparatively tiny step" betwixt the unit of the rapes and the murders - and Mulcahy was the archetypal to instrumentality that step.

"He was the instigator and premier mover successful the murders, and the 1 for whom the intersexual maltreatment had go insufficient to satisfy."

Mulcahy claimed helium was innocent, but connected February 5, 2001, helium was fixed 3 beingness sentences for murdering 3 women.

He received 24-year jailhouse presumption connected each of 7 counts of rape and 18 years each for 5 conspiracies to rape, to tally concurrently.

Where are the Railway Killers now?

Both Duffy and Mulcahy remained locked up for their crimes.

Duffy is down bars astatine HMP Frankland, County Durham, portion Mulcahy is an inmate astatine HMP Full Sutton adjacent Pocklington successful East Yorkshire.

With the sentences handed to the pair, it is improbable they volition beryllium released immoderate clip soon, arsenic they airs a superior information to the public.

The documentary, The Railway Killers, combines dramatisation of the murders with interviews with cardinal figures progressive with the case.

The three-part bid delves into the devastating interaction of the crimes committed by Duffy and Mulcahy, culminating successful the shocking revelation of their identities arsenic the killers.

The archetypal occurrence focuses connected the disappearance of Alison Day, who went missing successful December 1985 aft stepping disconnected a train.

In the 2nd episode, the constabulary intensify their hunt for the culprits liable for the murders of Day and teen Maartje Tamboezer.

The last occurrence explores the events 9 years aft Duffy's eventual seizure and sentencing to beingness imprisonment for execution and rape.

The Railway Killers is disposable to watercourse connected My5.