Britain's notorious serial killer who never told what he did with the heads of his victims has died in prison. After the death of the serial killer, this secret also got buried with him. 69-year-old John Sweeney was also known as the 'Canal Killer'. In 2011, John Sweeney was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his own former girlfriends Paula Fields and Melissa Halstead. After murdering both his ex-girlfriends, John Sweeney dismembered their bodies before dumping them in the canals of London and the Netherlands, so that they could not be identified.
Pieces of both bodies found after 10 years
After murder, John Sweeney threw the pieces of their bodies in the canals. These remains were found after a gap of a decade. John Sweeney was not linked to the women's disappearance until he was convicted of attacking another girlfriend with an axe. According to 'The Times' report, John Sweeney died of cancer on August 14 at HMP Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire.
The murder convict was sentenced to life imprisonment
The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that like all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is investigating it. It would be inappropriate to make any comment on this before the results of its investigation are known. John Sweeney was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for brutally murdering and attacking his three former partners (girlfriends).
Melissa Halstead was an American-born model who was originally from Ohio. On May 3, 1990, his torso was found in a canal in the Netherlands. After this, John Sweeney murdered 31-year-old mother Paula Fields and her body was found in the Regent's Canal in London.
Carpenter's work used to kill
John Sweeney, a carpenter, described his violence in scary paintings and poems found at his home. In this, he had called himself a 'scalp hunter' in a picture of a blood-soaked axe. In 1990, he had murdered Ms. Halstead (33), a former model from Ohio, USA. The severed parts of his body were thrown into a canal in Rotterdam, Netherlands. After 18 years, he was identified through a DNA test, although his head and hands were never found.
Several pieces of dead body were found in 6 bags
At the same time, in February 2001, body parts of Fields (31) were found in six bags floating in the Regent's Canal in Camden, North London. His head, hands and legs have still not been found. On the other hand, during the murderer's trial at the Old Bailey in 2011, government lawyers said that this was a deliberate attempt to prevent the identification of the body. In addition to the two murders, he also attacked his girlfriend, nurse Delia Balmer, with an axe; she was saved when a neighbor came to help. In the series of murders, in the year 1994, John Sweeney attacked Delia Balmer with a hammer and an axe, bringing her close to death.
In 1994, John Sweeney attacked Delia Ballmer with a hammer and an axe, bringing her close to death. John Sweeney had held her hostage and raped her several times over the course of a week before attempting to commit suicide. He was arrested for this, but was released on bail.
Used to threaten to cut tongue if she screamed
Delia Balmer described how he tied her to a bed and threatened her with a gun and a knife, and warned that if she screamed, he would cut out her tongue. At the time, they had no idea that he had already murdered one of his former colleagues, Halstead, and would later murder Fields as well. Let us tell you that two South American ex-girlfriends from the late 90s mysteriously disappeared, although there is no evidence that they were harmed and no one has reported their disappearance.
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