Joan Smith

Who in their right mind would choose to be a forensic psychiatrist?

Richard Taylor has had to study some truly horrific homicides in order to assess the mental condition and treatment of Britain’s murderers

Anthony Hardy, the ‘Camden Ripper’, whose case haunted Richard Taylor for years. Credit: Alamy 
issue 13 February 2021

When police were called to a block of flats in north London at the beginning of 2002, they expected to find a routine dispute between neighbours. What they actually discovered was the body of a woman, Rose White, in the locked bedroom of one of the apartments. The officers suspected foul play and the tenant, Anthony Hardy, was charged with murder.

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