When Life Means Life

Season 2

In the UK there are 45 men and one woman whose crimes are so bad that they have received whole-life tariffs, which means that their crimes are so bad that life imprisonment literally means life. These are some of their stories.

Where to Watch When Life Means Life • Season 2

7 Episodes

  • David Cook
    E1
    David CookDavid Cook was arrested in 1987 after he strangled to death teacher Beryl Maynard during a robbery. 21 years later he was released, but he hadn't reached the end of his crimes. He robbed and killed pensioner Leonard Hill in his home.
  • Glyn Dix
    E2
    Glyn DixGlyn Dix met Hazel when he was in prison for murdering Pia Overbury, a 32-year-old mother of two, in the 70s. Twelve years later they got married, but the marriage was to end in tragedy. In 2004 he killed Hazel in a frenzied attack.
  • Stephen Farrow
    E3
    Stephen FarrowIn 2012, Stephen Farrow sparked a nationwide manhunt, after he brutally murdered pensioner Betty Yates and Reverend John Suddards in Gloucestershire. He was eventually diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorder.
  • Trevor Hardy
    E4
    Trevor HardyTrevor Hardy, aka "The Beast of Manchester," murdered at least three teenage girls between 1974-76 after sexually assaulting and mutilating them, and then burying them. He bragged about his crimes, even filing his own teeth to avoid arrest. 23,000 people were interrogated during the nation-wide manhunt that eventually caught him.
  • Mark Hobson
    E5
    Mark HobsonIn 2004, he went on a vicious murder spree that claimed four lives. Splashed across every front page, this story made the news nationwide till his capture. What drove Hobson to murder four innocent victims during a week?
  • Arthur Hutchinson
    E6
    Arthur HutchinsonIn October 1983, Arthur Hutchinson brutally murders a mother, father and son in their own home in South Yorkshire and subjects a young woman to a prolonged and vicious rape. Fearing he'll strike again police launch a manhunt for him.
  • Michael Roberts
    E7
    Michael RobertsMichael Roberts, then thirty, brutally assaulted, raped and murdered women who lived alone in his neighborhood - aged 57, 66, 77 and 83 - through the late 80s. He went scot free till 2005, when advancements in forensic sciences led to a DNA match - and his conviction. Roberts was known as the "The Praying Rapist" after a victim recounted him crossing himself and praying.

 

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