Patrick Mackay: The Two Sides Of A Psychopath - Part 4

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

My final offering of Psychopath: The Two Sides Of Patrick Mackay comes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where I bring my side of the tale full circle, and account Mackay's 1975 trial for the murders he confessed to - those that he DIDN'T retract, of course; the years following his incarceration, and pose the following question:

Could the UK's longest continually serving prisoner, now in his 51st year inside, one day be released?

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving descriptions of animal cruelty, that some listeners may find disturbing or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening in.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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References - Assorted articles from the Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, Kent Live, The Daily Express, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, London Evening News, Shropshire Star, available from the British Newspaper Archive or Newspapers.com.

"Britain's Forgotten Serial Killer" - John Lucas (Pen and Sword Books 2019)
"Psychopath: The Case Of Patrick Mackay - Tim Clark and John Penycate (Routledge and Keegan Paul 1976)
Real Life Crimes And How They Were Solved Issue 55 (1993)
"Danger Men" - BBC Documentary 1990
SCENES OF CRIME: Colin Ireland / Patrick Mackay (Channel 5, 2002)
"London's Scariest Mysteries - Patrick Mackay"

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0:00.0	Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about.
0:08.2	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com.
0:23.6	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. The The The
0:40.3	The Hello all and the warmest of welcomes in these coldest, proper coldest of times to the
1:18.1	True Crime Enthusiast podcast. The regular dose from my North Wales Spear Room of some of those
1:23.6	tales of true crime that you won't find commonly broadcast on other shows, some that you
1:28.4	may never have come across, and others you may think, he's got to be making that up for sure,
1:34.1	but which are all true, and which I've scoured the world, seeking out to bring to you.
1:39.7	Doing so is myself, Paul, the creator host and true crime enthusiast of the show's title.
1:45.2	My beloved toothless ratbag, Pee, the true crime enthusiastie cat, is here with me like my
1:50.5	shadow as always, and me and Pee are completed by yourselves, the reason that why we do this,
1:56.7	the wonderful enthusiasts who make the show. It is as fabulous as always having you joining me in the hairy football,
2:03.8	which I thank you kindly for doing so,
2:06.0	and I hope that as you have,
2:07.6	then it's for an episode that finds you and yours all good, all safe, and all well.
2:16.0	So, though Mike has a couple more episodes to come, this episode brings my side of psychopath
2:22.3	to a close. The parts to date that I've covered dealing with the murder of Father Anthony
2:28.0	Kreme in Sean in Kent in 1975 and Mackay's arrest and confession to the crime. I've also brought you an account of
2:37.1	Mackay's mugging spree that resulted in the deaths of two elderly ladies, Isabella Griffiths, and
2:43.9	Adele Price, which she again confessed to in full, and in the penultimate part of my side of
2:49.8	psychopath, I've accounted Mackay's
2:52.3	disturbed adolescence and the events that led him to begin his murder spree.
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