England
FISHER
Graham
Active in 1998 in Hastings, East Sussex, England
DID YOU KNOW...
Awareness Fact
Fisher knew he was a menace to society so he confessed his crimes
Medical Fact
Fisher gained so much weight in Broadmoor, he was given a gastic band at taxpayer expense
Creepy Fact
Fisher claims to have eaten part of one victim
THE DISPATCH
Early Crimes
Graham Fisher committed sexual assault both before, during and after the murders. It doesn’t appear (according to media) that he sexually assaulted his murder victims.
The Murders
Clare Letchford
- January 18, 1998
- Cornwallis Gardens, Hastings
Forty-year-old Clare Letchford lived in a basement flat in Cornwallis Gardens, Hastings. On January 18, 1998, firefighters were called out to a fire at her home and they found her body. An investigation showed she had been strangled with shoelaces and a cushion cover was placed over her head. Ultimately she died of smoke inhalation. A piece of her arm was missing.
Beryl Megan Doreen O'Connor
- January 26, 1988
- Holmesdale Gardens, Hastings
On January 26, 1998, Beryl Megan Doreen O’Connor, known as Dornie, was murdered in her flat just 100 yards from where Letchford was killed. Firefighters were called to her home and found the 75-year-old dead. She had been strangled before being set on fire. Like Letchford, she died from asphyxiation from smoke inhalation.
Child Arrested and Released
- February 04, 1998
- Hastings
On February 4, 1998, police arrested a 13-year-old boy in relation to both murders. The unnamed child was held for 48 hours and released on bail to the care of social workers. He was not charged in their deaths. At least three more people were arrested for the deaths before the real killer was charged.
Sex Assaults
- in May 1998
- Eastbourne, East Sussex
In May, 1998, Fisher indecently assaulted two Spanish students at knifepoint in Eastbourne, East Sussex. He confessed years later, in 2008, and was tried and sentenced to a 5-year term.
This is an unusual example of a multiple murder/spree killer de-escalating.
Arrest & Trial
Fisher Charged in Murders
- July 08, 2009
- Crowthorne, Berkshire
Fisher was in Broadmoor, a notorious psychiatric hospital in England, for sex crimes, when he contacted police. He knew he was an ongoing threat to society and wanted to confess to the murders of Letchford and O’Connor. He also admitted trying to rape and kill a Czech student on a train, and to raping a London woman in her home. The student was attacked in the toilet of a train in January, 1998. The vulnerable London woman was attacked In 1991. Police announced his confession on July 8, 2009.
Fisher Guilty
- September 27, 2010
- Lewes Crown Court, Lewes, East Sussex
On September 17, 2010, Fisher was sentenced to 21 years for both charges of manslaughter (based on diminished responsibility) after being found not sane.
Fisher’s Location
In August, 2019, media delighted in reports that Graham Fisher, the “cannibal killer”, was a cook at Broadmoor. Authorities say he is unlikely to ever be released.
BOOK
Book which mentions Graham Fisher
Complete Casebook Of British Serial Murder by Daniel Johnson
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Sept. 18 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 338 pages
ISBN-10 : 1479341339
ISBN-13 : 978-1479341337
This book examines over one hundred cases of serial murder in the United Kingdom over the last two hundred years, in one of the most comprehensive books on the subject ever published. Serial killers such as Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper”, Steve Wright, the “Suffolk Strangler,” and Anthony Hardy, the “Camden Ripper” will be familiar. However, the cases of Harold Jones, Frederick Field, Andrew Dawson or Mark Rowntree may not be. This book aims to cover them all. 76 cases are examined in detail, and 25 more are discussed. Including a critical discussion of the current classification system for serial killers, and how it could be replaced wholesale, The Complete Casebook of British Serial Murder is a one-of-a-kind criminological volume essential to any collection on the subject/
VIDEOS & PODCASTS
Video from Crimewatch UK
Murder by the Sea. We note the writeup mentions “two young victims”, but they were aged 40 and 75.
True Crime Coven podcast video
THE STATS
Statistical table for Graham Fisher
| Killer Name | FISHER, Graham |
| Gender | M |
| Arrest Date | May , 2008 |
| Conviction Date | September 17, 2010 |
| Sentence | 21 years |
| Birth Date | , 1973 |
| Status | Alive or Unknown |
| Physical Issue | gained significant weight in Broadmoor, given gastric band at taxpayer expense |
| Killer Type | Sexual/Sadistic, Spree, Thrill killer, Territorial |
| Psychology | yes in Broadmoor when he confessed |
| Institutionalized | Broadmoor |
| Fire Setting | set victims on fire |
| Deescalation | yes |
| comment1 | Arrested and convicted in 2008 for sex assaults, confessed charged 2009, sentenced 2010 |
| comment2 | Said the murders sexually excited him but there was no mention in press of sexual assaults |
| comment3 | https://www.pressreader.com/uk/real-people/20180823/281625306148757 |
| comment4 | https://headtopics.com/uk/cannibal-killer-who-ate-victim-s-flesh-has-new-role-inside-broadmoor-as-a-cook-7943808 |
| Total Dead Victims | 2 |
| Victims (Confessed) | 2 |
| Victims (Convicted) | 2 |
| Victim Gender | F |
| Victim Race | White |
| Victim Age | 40, 75 |
| Victim Type | vulnerable women in his neighbourhood |
| Method of Killing | strangulation, asphyxiation |
| Weapon | shoelaces, fire |
| Torture | Yes |
| Overkill | Yes |
| Binding | Yes |
| Cannibalism | Yes |
| Body - Dismembered | Yes |
| Body - Left, Not Hidden | Yes |
| Previous Crimes | Sexual assaults |