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he entered Ford's flat completely naked apart from a devil mask. Arkwright stabbed Ford between 250 and 540 times and draped his entrails around the room that he had been murdered in. He then went home to shower off the blood and at 7 am, the police came to arrest him for burgling Ford's flat, completely unaware that Ford lay dead next door. After being interviewed for three hours and then released on police bail for a court appearance the following week, Arkwright went out for another drinking session, amazed at being a murderer allowed to walk free from a police station.
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The next to be killed was
Arkwright's neighbour Raymond Ford, an unemployed former teacher who was already being bullied by him. Arkwright had also stolen items from Ford's flat and Ford reported him to the police for the thefts. Arkwright knew this and wanted revenge. At 3 am on 28 August 1988,
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On 29 August, early in the morning, Arkwright entered the specially adapted bungalow belonging to his other next-door neighbour, Marcus Law. Law, who was 25 at the time, was in a wheelchair after a motorbike accident. In what
Arkwright would describe as a punishment for all the cigarettes that Law
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Law's mother found her son's body. Police arrested
Arkwright, who confessed to four murders, which meant that searches for the bodies of his other victims had to be organised hastily. It was suggested that when shocked police had found the three remaining bodies, Arkwright felt that he was losing
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Mexborough and dropped hints about the murder, saying things such as, "It's been murder on the allotment today." It was believed that Arkwright's second victim was his grandfather's housekeeper, 73-year-old Elsa Kronadaite, whilst he was in the process of taking his grandfather's savings of
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had scrounged off him, he stabbed Law at least 70 times, before trying to gut him. When this failed, Arkwright inserted one of Law's crutches into a gaping wound in his stomach. He also gouged out Law's eyes and inserted cigarettes into his eye sockets, ears, and mouth.
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awaiting trial, Arkwright smeared the walls of his cell with excrement in a dirty protest at not being recognised and revered as he believed he should be. After convincing prison doctors that he was insane, he was transferred to
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in July 1989, Arkwright pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. It was commented upon that
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changed the law so that certain people sentenced to life in prison, would spend the rest of their lives there, with no chance of parole. This was challenged in 2013, when the
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control, and so invented a fifth victim, leading to further searches of lakes and drainage ditches.
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Arkwright's case was featured in episode 168 of the dark comedy podcast series,
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