Britain's Most Dangerous Psychiatric Hospital (Prison Documentary) | Real Stories

broaden a word that makes people shiver most thing to Broadmoor is a prison in fact is a high secure psychiatric hospital and home to some of the country's most dangerous and violent offenders after five years of negotiation and for the very first time the hospital has allowed cameras in to meet the men who live behind these walls and brought Wars for what is letting history of our people being all these monsters here basically what can be violent but I thought we had a bad person because sometimes you don't you know in ten minute the easiest reaction in the world is to see somebody that has committed something atrocious labeled them as evil once a lock the door and throw away the key I probably actually never said the words of what I've actually done I've never admitted it it's still just a blur in my head I got bored enjoys Italian family very very violent in some cases it was impressive guilty that allowed me to have this adorable life that I had with unprecedented access and filmed over a year this series reveals the secrets of life inside Britain's most notorious institution brought Lori's past of the Berkshire village of Croton just 40 miles from the center of London when people think of Broadmoor they think of Ronnie Kray Peter Sutcliffe Robert nappa and Kenneth Erskine some of the most dangerous killers the country has ever known the public perceive displaces oh that's where the auction refers not to that's rachel karz killers local Broadmoor is an institution of lots of people but not all rapists pedophiles or murderers through his people in here for self Harmon in prison there's people in here for burglary they tentacle ill imprison his people in here for very very evil things and it pushes brought a saint brush which they shouldn't do first built as a Victorian lunatic asylum for the criminally insane today Broadmoor is an NHS hospital over its 150 year history it's been a secretive a mysterious institution star under strict instructions not to discuss patients outside the hospital walls many won't even admit to working here close members know obviously where we work but if we're in a normal range thing that you would you'd probably say work in the hospital or something we don't really talk about the place as soon if you said to the relative or boy you just spend their whole of the day or the afternoon with a barrage of questions about the place so it's just easier to say you work for the NHS they're told not to share personal information with the patient's either and to leave their private lives along with their possessions at the front door Broadway's most notorious patients like Peter Sutcliffe and Kenneth Erskine chosen not to participate [Music] but many of the men here have been front-page news and are vilified by society this is the first time they've been allowed to tell their stories of diner food from taking hostages more hostage taking stabbings you know multiple assaults violent assaults fire staying off a sec first a fireman in a hospital psychiatric hospital the first one I have went to yeah it has mainly violence and whatnot my history is mainly violence Broad was 200 patients Oh men suffering from mental disorders they're classified as vulnerable adults and only those who have capacity to give consent have been allowed to talk to us their faces have been blurred to protect their identities very violent in most most circumstances very antisocial I don't have to be new time of people power very power with everything every person is around them thinking what's their intention coming out sometimes to convert those to attacking people because I'm thinking that they're gonna do something to me and I don't want to get her at first I remember one time without my medication I spent 11 months locked in a Cell segregating to to the fact that I was too dangerous to come out 24-year old Alex arrived at Broadmoor seven months ago he was serving a life sentence in a dedicated prison unit for highly dangerous prisoners they could no longer manage him now on a missions ward he's been diagnosed with mental illness and personality disorder and put on medication one of his symptoms is auditory hallucinations he hears voices I was excited the other day for an assessment that's me dudas assessment from personal motor skills is made for learning disability and I'm I was cutting a mango and I've never I've never used a sharp knife from the seven years up in a way of not use a sharp knife and I was shaped in literally nearly cotton few thinkers fall because the voices were telling me to attack people in the room with the knife and loading me into an offer I can't do that yes I managed to finish fruits a fruit salad and I felt wow like what achievement because my story on it's much more a year ago two years ago my wish would have done this is clam filler the intensive care world home to the hospital's most acute mentally ill patients any contact with them has to be carefully planned and executed this is a six person unlock the door to this patients room can only be opened with six staff present there's always the risk of violence towards others if they said that you know they've got a chronic mental illness and they would be very disturbed throughout the day but you have to learn to work with them focus will be working with these guys is actually telling them that they are here not because of the humans are here because of violence and the only progress from here if there's a reduction in that violence so that message you know it might take time but gradually over a period of time is that going through on this ward even the most routine tasks to run a risk of violence and involve a protocol this patient is asked for a drink [Music] life in Broadmoor can be a game of snakes and ladders with patients moving between the hospitals 15 wards according to their mental state patients who responded to treatment can progress to one of the hospital's assertive rehab wards where they're given greater freedom Daniel is one of 12 patients on this ward I've been here five years luckily I never went to a high dependency when I came straight to a rehab and to be honest it's been I wouldn't use the word wonderful because it's not wonderful but I've been grateful basically to come here in my spare time I try and engage in artwork mostly this was the my first real attempt in an actual portrait all done completely in graphite and then I moved on to using charcoal along with graphite and the charcoal allows you to have so much more depth in the tonal quality and then yeah I did a self portrait the hope the whole picture was a statement about when I got locked up when I was 14 and I'm now 24 this is me at 24 but that's me back then sort of thing mental disorder is no respecter of class or education Daniel was a fourteen-year-old boy too mainstream school and no one anticipated the violence of his attack on his own family [Music] all of the men in Broadmoor present a grave and immediate risk to the public and many have committed violent crimes from arson to torture rape and murder unlike a prison sentence they have no release date I've been a bit of a conundrum for the psychologists and about nine different diagnosis from 30 different doctors I've had seminars about me done in other people wanting to write books about me just because of the unusual 'ti of my offense and my age what happened I mean my family on my saving grace to be honest you know they're they're hugely hugely supportive and what's even more amazing is that my offense was actually orientated against my family sort of thing so the fact and and what a lot of people see is that when a family member has committed an offense against a family member they often just disown sort of thing you know it's too much for the family but they've told me that they saw without stayed by me when they went there when I was christened and they have sort of thing you know they've always they've always agreed I've had us purchase one of the problems I have is I'm not very good at understanding emotions or if I have a if I'm feeling something I don't always understand what it is that I'm feeling but if I can drawer it I can get out these angry feelings or these frustrations of being locked up or guilt or remorse and all these all these negative feelings like I can channel through this imaginative artwork so I think I probably actually never said the words of what I've actually done I've never admitted it because I still I still get flashbacks it's mainly guilt I still I still struggle to bring it to mind it's still just a blur in my head and I've done such a terrible thing that's one of the things that I've got to come to terms with eventually is that I've done this it's happened it will be with me forever we're not allowed to reveal the details of Daniels offense problems of fine motor control and spatial awareness things like that I bump into things and dropping things a lot as you say is one of the most common side effects Daniel is taking medication and undergoing psychological therapy these together with everyday interaction with staff are the cornerstones of the treatment here benefit I have noticed a difference on you not were the last two weeks but certainly the last three months I think that you are much more able to spend longer time with people of one-to-one situations Broadmoor can feel like a ghost town patients can only move at certain times and in certain configurations and cameras record where each patient is at any given moment the control room ensures that incompatible patients do not collide patients who are well enough leave their wards to go to work study and even once a week go shopping it's strangely like a village [Music] the freedom to shop is a mixed blessing one of the side effects of medication is increased appetite and many patients are severely overweight however normal it fills the reminder of the threat of violence is ever-present searches looking for potential weapons are carried out before any patient movement this is stuff that we've retrieved from patients I think this is just what used to be a CD and it's been broken up into shards it can be used as a blade even self harming in fact we don't use the CDs here anymore we've got students and folks that have been sharpened off on the edge so a normal teaspoon plastic spoon which is quite innocent to you and I has been fashioned off and can be used as a potential weapon to stab and it's just an example of how vigilant we have to be with everyday items see for a couple of times cotton fell out four times I think finally enough for your feelings about five weeks before coming out home myself and I had to do CPR on in the cell I've sexually abused when I was a child did not had an effect on my behavior my men will stay that I couldn't sleep at night and all the rest of it I was you know basically everything you go through and you've added to my situation like I did I think is wrong I being is I said someone that this feels like the best I've ever been in ten years [Music] patients that come here they will have perpetrated often horrendous crimes but they are also victims and it is very easy to see somebody as either the perpetrator or the victim it is much more difficult to understand that somebody might be both patients from different wards meet at certain events today is a diversity workshop and poet and lawyer Dave Nita is encouraging them to celebrate their different cultures but most of them are celebrating lunch no alcohol tobacco allowed food is the only thing they have free reign over I'd say that total it helps in their decide to have a spare bed so far I've been in chill zone of being skewness I've been in prison and a place I've been his blood war so far come along now 26 Declan was put into care at the age of nine I remember the day my mum to visitors office sat down on a chair and next Misha just left she wouldn't you not come with me oh so she wouldn't come out she went are you gonna come with me I went to children zones foster homes I kept running away because we've got abused when I was an insurance and by the staff sexually and physical and everything is like no one would actually listen to me I ran away to London I was living in the streets I know I mean I was living out opinions yeah not nice but when you're mesquite you have to do that sometimes I mean becomes like this when you see it on the street you see when you see people having my a victim me my curry defendant basically stabbed them up the just cast under is torture a [Applause] little boy is seven is either turismo don't really see him but I would I wouldn't respect children to come in place of this relationship so yeah that was the first time I found out that I was sort of that way I was for some reason what was going to be a woman I think that's well I mean but in this place you can't do that won't be a drag queen that's why I've done for a while crystal blunt and just fabulous [Music] we've come to chepstow a medium dependency ward where Lenny wants to show us his artwork nice a second time that Sukhoi does in water shut down though because I think my particular offense was against in Kazan psychiatrist he call the sixteen section twelve psychiatrist and they're very powerful not like not like when you go to all regatta there they were home office he's not happy with life in Broadmoor and tells us he's bringing a high court case against a hospital cost to keep read it four hundred twenty thousand pounds a year or something surely it's is wrong to charge a fortune for people like us when it would be nowhere near about the city's community it cost three hundred thousand pounds a year to keep a patient at Broadmoor almost five times the cost of keeping someone in prison before Lenny came to Broadmoor he was an outpatient at a psychiatric hospital where he threatened his psychiatrist with a machete do you feel microfiber with you because I think no I don't feel I should be I think actually sharing this my life alone people I want to share my life of people I wanna get more inside when I have a shave what I do when I do and be really responsible behind me when I was out there and I don't think I'll be any more danger than whatever the already out there and I will be honest to god I am rooted here I could be really fuse that angle he'd become your the patient's yeah that is a tool we used to separate you for us to decide were the last thing on earth it's a true fear to be given what we call equal rights what do you think to be or not I'm not any people walk people downstairs on the admissions ward alex has came to progress is medication has stabilized him he wants to move from admissions to an assertive rehab Ward where he'll have greater freedom yes I don't know the timescales because it's not quite in my control back upstairs on chepstow Benson the Patt dog has arrived for his weekly visit Lennie's behavior over the past few days of becoming a cause for concern he's been increasingly manic and hyperactive and his doctor feels he needs medication Lenny refuses to take it so it will have to be forcibly administered by injection staff tell us to leave the ward we're told we can seal any the following day [Music] you know wiki please the day before we were told to leave the ward with anti-psychotic medication to explain what happened after we left he leads us into the seclusion one of the biggest series of conflicts between certain doctor and patient is the issue of medication one of the difficulties with psychotic disorders is your interpretation of reality is different from other people's if you if you genuinely believe there's nothing wrong with you and you don't need any medication why on earth would you want to take some of the medications that would be up for discussion he's particularly angry for two reasons so one is he doesn't believe he'll benefit from the medication at all second reason is that he believes he's involved in a major high court case against the hospital to expose a range of malpractice particularly in relation to him but in general but how these services are just really keeping people in jobs and don't provide any useful service the hospital's defense it's just he's we saw the most notorious people in the country oh he believes we've given him the medication surely two dollars mind and weaken his chances have been successful in that case in fact he's not currently involved in any legal action or court case that's my mom and me but she she put you a black and what with her 60s here he's a man who spent a long time in institutional care in previous settings was frequently assaulted he was violent himself on several occasions but he was often assaulted just check my shoes the shadows are covered so they checked the first thing in the morning again before the patients go back patients who are well enough to go to work can make goods which go on sale to the public they're paid 80 pence an hour alex has been doing well and is now allowed off the admissions ward to come to work everyone said oh you're gonna move you gotta move they say I would have moved my first date our sweet nothings find out I've been on to my soundcloud you send up why and why am I still on an admission you're after eight months when there's a bedroom real real at the moment focusing snakes we've evolved is Ian's mom and dad coming up for two days they have a saying here there's time and then there's Broadmoor time which episode you can see the last of these fenders last night they show no the man who pretending to be Nick cazzo I'm sorry [Music] while medication can often control behavior extensive therapy is needed to change it and that takes time Estelle Moore is the hospital's lead psychologist she's been here for 20 years finishes in December patients undergo specific therapies depending on their offense whether it's violence sex offending or fire setting what sort of actions are safe and contained in relationships there's lots of things that you would do that feel like normal and safe relationships laughter laughter is okay so laughing talking sensible film comfortable of each other Declan was found guilty of a life-threatening assault on a man missing the Sun Mr surfing [Music] Lenny has been on antipsychotic medication for a few weeks is had time to build up in his system now he's at the depo injection the chemicals for lay a slowing down his relationship to the point where yes those few milliseconds to think how am I gonna reply to this and they were applying a much Menace of what you were I would reply to something that could definitely empathize with them he hasn't company different background to me but he has come from different parents you can probably see if you go back into the lives of most of our patients you could probably identify them at five six years old and say I'll be seeing you later on everyone is born with certain temperaments with certain predispositions to certain behavior and if you've been given a triple whammy of genes environment upbringing childhood adversity substance misuse all of those different aspects build-up to make the person and it's a long-term project of gradually putting somebody back together and making sure that they stay in that recovered State things are finally changed for Alex after eight months he's been moved to assertive rehab it's better for a lot more freedom you to the door come up with your own meat hot drinks that's right but it's not all good news as so often in the past he's in danger of self-harming he's had to be put on eyesight observation which means nurses have to take turns to watch him 24 hours a day mine will stay up in the best it's not nice their voices and why for you but you control it that's all family nor they get to here for a reason that means the past a couple years so me but okay I have a blip Lisa these there was no violence which is good you should be proud of at least it shows that you're making you know more progress Alexes mental state continued to deteriorate after a couple of weeks on the ward he did self-harm and had to be moved back to a high dependency ward on chepstow ward dr. Larkin wants to discuss a recent incident involving Lenny and another doctor to track and find pedophiles in our society how pleased that was and that they weren't just already poor folk live again she was also people who important till getting found out I'm really pleased about that she felt threatened I was saying it also included a couple of doctors that were new for pedophilia you're not angry with her about something in a it wasn't it wasn't though it towards the general idea pedophilia because you know you know I am a victim of pedophilia for nine years under the home office when I was a child myself and they've done nothing but buried in fact though I'm an offender I am an offender and admit that I'm guilty of the crime that brought me to broad wall I threatened to kill their section 12 Kesava psychiatrist like you are with a machete but I'm not guilty of raping myself well I think the issue was that you felt nobody here was competent I was being tied up right wrote against my wall alcohol shoved down my throat right pacified with all kinds of many medicines that belong to that person you're not me so that I would be pliable and agree to have any sex which I don't wanna do as a 5 6 year old boy but nine years or the others in the system itself being serious I colleges at the same time of being raped and nobody a single thing to help me you're offering me therapy I know I'm not angry at you I'm not angry with anybody I maybe the people who did what I did to me know recognize that I wasn't a victim so are we agree on that you're gonna meet with David about options for therapy for you as a victim yeah thank you very much it's a lot home well thank you okay oh if I keep out of trouble food for 12 weeks they let me work in the cat yes I think you can do that be hard but I'll give it a try the most challenging patients are housed here on Cranfield ward any movement outside their rooms has to be carefully planned violence is always near the surface patients are allowed one by one in the yard for limited periods a patient doesn't want to return to his room his primary nurse MO has already given him an extra 30 minutes a plan intervention to relocate him to his room because this presentation dictates that equal to five yeah you said threatening and verbally abusive a Damini yeah Moe puts on a camera to record the planned intervention in the event of any violence [Music] on the intensive care ward staff are preparing to move a reluctant patient back to his room from the yard the hospital has forbidden us from showing this restraint procedure even with the patient disguised on the grounds that he doesn't have capacity to consent his voice has been replaced by an actor's [Music] well known for kicking staff the patient is asked to remove his shoes as predicted he lashes out the eight staff members get the patient onto the floor for everyone's safety [Music] there outside his room its back on the floor and a final maneuver to get him safely through the door [Music] once in the room the patient is placed on the bed feet furthest from the door and one nurse will keep hold of his legs another his arms and a third his head they let go and exit one by one the last to let go is holding his head and nearest to the door whenever force has to be used staff take time out to reappraise please fist swearing mini presents in nomina it is gonna fight you know you can't predict these things these operations while managing but most important thing is that everybody's safe and the procedures were followed very well and the patient so that's it then guys bid to our jobs on average there are five physical assaults a week on staff including punching kicking throwing hot liquids urine and feces some are serious enough to warrant the hospital pursuing criminal charges every other day there are days when the would be very set all the patients are quite or being a happy mood but not all the time because them interstate sub-sites alone so you were right about him now weren't you yeah of course he's actually I am his primary nurse so I know him you know you can tell you can see it's coming it's about knowing your patients we know all of them so was he complaining about how many of you there were there he was counting how many staff there were he knew that we are ready for action you know inasmuch as they are mentally here who they are not stupid some of them they know exactly what they're doing it's kind of like prep and I'm gonna get them and you look at a team to see oh I think this is a weak team and then patients like these on Cranfield can progress they will eventually move on to other wards and with time even out of the hospital [Music] maybe [Music]

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Length: 44min 23sec (2663 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 01 2018