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John Childs (murderer)
John Childs, also known as Bruce Childs, is a British man from East London who was convicted in 1979 for a series of apparent contract killings, though none of the bodies have been found. He implicated Terry Pinfold and Harry MacKenney in the murders, but they were released in 2003 after the judge ruled that Childs is a "pathological liar".〔 Childs is serving a whole life tariff. He is known as the most prolific hit man in the UK.
==Investigation and trials==
Childs confessed to having committed the murders to Detective Chief Superintendent Frank Cater in June 1979, after Childs was arrested in September 1978 for a series of bank and security van robberies in Hertfordshire.〔〔 The investigation was based at Waltham Abbey police station in Essex. Childs was convicted of carrying out six murders from November 1974 to October 1978. The victims were Terence (Terry) Eve, Robert Brown, George Brett, Terry Brett, Frederick (Freddie) Sherwood, and Ronald Andrews. Their remains have not been found, and no suspect murder weapons were uncovered.〔〔〔
Childs was tried at the Old Bailey, with John Mathew QC prosecuting. Childs was convicted on 4 December 1979 and was sentenced by Mr Justice Lawson to six concurrent life sentences.〔 Childs then turned Queen's Evidence to implicate his former employers, Essex businessmen and former prisoners Terry Pinfold and Harry "Big H" MacKenney, in the murder of Eve and the other victims. Other co-accused were Leonard Thompson and Paul Morton-Thurtle. Former prisoner Terry Eve, who had become a toy maker in Dagenham, went missing in November 1974. Eve had made teddy bears in the same converted church hall that Pinfold and MacKenney used to make diving equipment for their company. Also missing was a haulage contractor, George Brett, along with his 10-year-old son Terry.〔〔
A second eight-week-long trial began at the Old Bailey in October 1980, after Childs had been held in solitary confinement for 15 months.〔 The judge was Mr Justice May, the prosecutor was David Tudor Price, and MacKenney's defence lawyer was Michael Mansfield QC. Childs said at trial that Eve was killed so that they could take his business; he said Eve was beaten and strangled, and that they disposed of his body by dismembering and burning. He said that the defendants pretended to offer George Brett work so that he would visit the factory, and that MacKenney shot him and his son with a sten gun. Childs said that Ronald Andrews was killed because MacKenney was having an affair with his wife, nursing home owner Frederick Sherwood was killed because of a £7000 debt, and Robert Brown was killed because of what he knew about the murder of Eve. Childs said he had considered killing MacKenney with a crossbow because he was afraid of him. The defence called as witnesses two prisoners who said that Childs had confessed to them that he had falsely implicated MacKenney because he was worried that his own wife Tina would be accused of murder.〔 Pinfold and MacKenney were convicted by the jury on 28 November 1980, though MacKenney was cleared of involvement in Eve's murder. The other accused men, Thompson and Morton-Thurtle, were found not guilty. MacKenney was sentenced to life imprisonment and had to be restrained by guards when the sentence was delivered. It was later reported that Childs had been issued with a whole life tariff by at least one Home Secretary after the tariff-setting system was introduced in 1983, making it unlikely that he will ever be released.〔〔
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