Broadmoor: For the Criminally Insane

Channel 5 +1

11:00 PM to 12:05 AM

Monday 4 November

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The high-security psychiatric hospital's secrets and scandals, with staff revealing how they were harassed by and forced to fend off journalists eager for a scoop. In 2007, one member of staff was paid by a tabloid for confidential information about Peter Sutcliffe, but was eventually caught and sent to jail. In 1977, 19-year-old Colm Byrne joined Broadmoor as a trainee psychiatric nurse and nearly 50 years on, he reveals the experiences he witnessed inside the hospital that shocked him so much he had to leave