1 00:00:06,242 --> 00:00:08,652 [Solemn music plays, noises of nature in 2 00:00:08,652 --> 00:00:09,840 background] 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,853 Narrator: Broadmoor, a word that makes people shiver. 4 00:00:14,873 --> 00:00:17,673 Most think that Broadmoor is a prison, 5 00:00:17,673 --> 00:00:20,593 in fact it's a high secure psychiatric hospital, 6 00:00:20,593 --> 00:00:22,432 and home to some of the countries most 7 00:00:22,432 --> 00:00:24,762 dangerous and violent offenders. 8 00:00:24,762 --> 00:00:28,910 [Gate unlocking, mechanical noises] 9 00:00:28,910 --> 00:00:32,030 After five years of negotiation, and for the 10 00:00:32,030 --> 00:00:34,462 very first time, the hospital has allowed 11 00:00:34,462 --> 00:00:37,470 cameras in to meet the men who live behind 12 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:38,652 these walls. 13 00:00:38,652 --> 00:00:44,694 [unintelligible yelling, sound of something slamming] 14 00:00:44,694 --> 00:00:48,340 [Running foot steps keys jangling] 15 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:51,694 [more yelling and sounds of a struggle] 16 00:00:51,694 --> 00:00:53,884 [door slams] 17 00:00:53,884 --> 00:00:56,264 [foot steps echo in the hallway] 18 00:00:56,264 --> 00:00:58,684 Inmate: Broadmoores got this, this history 19 00:00:58,684 --> 00:01:01,410 about people being all these monsters here basically. 20 00:01:01,410 --> 00:01:03,110 But you can be violent, and it don't mean you're 21 00:01:03,110 --> 00:01:04,261 a bad person. 22 00:01:04,261 --> 00:01:04,991 'Cause sometimes 23 00:01:04,991 --> 00:01:06,751 you don't....you're not intendin' it. 24 00:01:06,751 --> 00:01:09,261 Over radio: "Hello Brovo one, two, and go. 25 00:01:09,261 --> 00:01:11,121 Over radio: "One going to the 26 00:01:11,121 --> 00:01:13,981 [ unintelligible] all radio. Alpha four. 27 00:01:13,981 --> 00:01:14,821 Over." 28 00:01:15,848 --> 00:01:18,134 The easiest reaction in the world is to 29 00:01:18,134 --> 00:01:20,136 see somebody that has committed something 30 00:01:20,136 --> 00:01:22,630 atrocious, label them as evil, want to 31 00:01:22,630 --> 00:01:25,866 lock the door and throw away the key. 32 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:28,106 Inmate: "I've probably actually never said 33 00:01:28,106 --> 00:01:29,626 the words of what I've I actually done. 34 00:01:29,626 --> 00:01:32,406 I've never admitted it. Still just a blur 35 00:01:32,406 --> 00:01:33,976 in my head". 36 00:01:34,683 --> 00:01:36,533 [knocking on door] 37 00:01:37,524 --> 00:01:39,324 Inmate 2: "I've got born into this Italian 38 00:01:39,324 --> 00:01:42,834 family. Very, very violent. In some cases 39 00:01:42,834 --> 00:01:44,279 it would have been better to have killed 40 00:01:44,279 --> 00:01:46,373 me than to have allowed me to have this 41 00:01:46,373 --> 00:01:49,294 horrible life that I've had. 42 00:01:53,979 --> 00:01:56,409 Narrator: With unprecedented access, and 43 00:01:56,409 --> 00:01:58,739 filmed over a year, this series reveals 44 00:01:58,739 --> 00:02:01,039 the secrets of life inside Brittians most 45 00:02:01,039 --> 00:02:02,819 notorious institution. 46 00:02:02,819 --> 00:02:07,779 [Bell rings] 47 00:02:07,779 --> 00:02:13,999 [Solemn music] 48 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,080 Narrator: Broadmoor is perched above the 49 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,260 Berkshire village of Crowthorne. Just 40 50 00:02:18,260 --> 00:02:20,680 miles from the center of London. 51 00:02:21,810 --> 00:02:24,510 When people think of Broadmoore they think of 52 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:26,670 Ronny Kray, Peter Sutcliffe, Robert 53 00:02:26,670 --> 00:02:28,940 Napper, and Kenneth Erskine. Some of the 54 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:31,130 most dangerous killers the country has 55 00:02:31,130 --> 00:02:31,951 ever known. 56 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:35,529 "The public perceive this place as 'oh, 57 00:02:35,529 --> 00:02:37,569 that's where the Yorkshire Rippers locked 58 00:02:37,569 --> 00:02:39,879 up, that's Rachel Nickell's killers locked 59 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:43,709 up'. Broadmoor is an institution of lots of 60 00:02:43,709 --> 00:02:46,629 people. We're not all rapist pedophiles, 61 00:02:46,629 --> 00:02:50,629 or murderers. There is people in here for 62 00:02:50,629 --> 00:02:54,629 self-harming in prison, there's people in 63 00:02:54,629 --> 00:02:58,629 here for buggary and they've gotten in a prison, 64 00:02:58,629 --> 00:03:00,529 and there's people in here for very very 65 00:03:00,529 --> 00:03:01,809 evil things. 66 00:03:01,809 --> 00:03:03,679 and it brushes with all the same brush 67 00:03:03,679 --> 00:03:05,358 what station [unintelligible]". 68 00:03:05,358 --> 00:03:09,358 [loud string crescendo] 69 00:03:09,542 --> 00:03:11,022 Narrator: First built as a victorian 70 00:03:11,022 --> 00:03:13,377 lunatic asylum for the criminally insane, 71 00:03:13,830 --> 00:03:15,960 today Broadmoor is an NHS hospital. 72 00:03:17,881 --> 00:03:21,171 Over its 150 year history, its been a secretive 73 00:03:21,171 --> 00:03:24,881 and mysterious institution. 74 00:03:25,007 --> 00:03:27,277 Staff are under strict instructions not to 75 00:03:27,277 --> 00:03:30,207 discuss patients outside the hospital walls. 76 00:03:32,829 --> 00:03:34,299 [clicking as items are placed on conveyer 77 00:03:34,299 --> 00:03:35,569 and beeping of machinery] 78 00:03:35,569 --> 00:03:37,769 Many won't even admit to working here. 79 00:03:37,769 --> 00:03:39,149 Staff Member: " Close, close family 80 00:03:39,149 --> 00:03:41,209 members know that, obviously, where we 81 00:03:41,209 --> 00:03:43,781 work. But if we're in a normal mainstream 82 00:03:43,781 --> 00:03:45,707 than you would, you would probably say you 83 00:03:45,707 --> 00:03:47,983 work in the hospital or something. Don't 84 00:03:47,983 --> 00:03:49,663 really talk about the place." 85 00:03:49,663 --> 00:03:50,743 Staff Member #2: " Listen, if you said 86 00:03:50,743 --> 00:03:52,253 that you worked here. Ah, boy. You'd just 87 00:03:52,253 --> 00:03:53,573 spend the whole of a day, or the 88 00:03:53,573 --> 00:03:56,106 afternoon, with a barrage of questions about the place. 89 00:03:56,106 --> 00:03:58,366 So, it's just easy to say you work for the 90 00:03:58,366 --> 00:03:59,206 NHS". 91 00:04:00,753 --> 00:04:02,443 Narrator: They're told not to share 92 00:04:02,443 --> 00:04:03,625 personal information with the patients 93 00:04:03,625 --> 00:04:05,770 either, and to leave their private lives 94 00:04:05,770 --> 00:04:08,766 along with their possessions. At the front door. 95 00:04:12,407 --> 00:04:14,847 Broadmoor's most notorious patients, 96 00:04:14,847 --> 00:04:16,820 like Peter Sutcliffe and Kenneth Erskine, 97 00:04:16,820 --> 00:04:20,820 have chosen not to participate. 98 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,380 But many of the men here have been front 99 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:26,378 page news and are vilified by society. 100 00:04:26,801 --> 00:04:28,451 This is the first time they've been 101 00:04:28,451 --> 00:04:30,481 allowed to tell their stories. 102 00:04:30,698 --> 00:04:31,898 Alex: I've everything from taking 103 00:04:31,898 --> 00:04:35,189 hostages, more hostage taking, stabbings, 104 00:04:35,189 --> 00:04:38,043 ya' know. Uhhhh... more assaults, violent 105 00:04:38,043 --> 00:04:40,736 assaults, fire setting off. I set a whole 106 00:04:40,736 --> 00:04:43,496 stammers a fire in a hospital. A 107 00:04:43,496 --> 00:04:45,356 psychiatric hospital, the first one I 108 00:04:45,356 --> 00:04:47,626 ever went to. Umm.. yeah. Just mainly 109 00:04:47,626 --> 00:04:50,566 violence and whatnot. My history is mainly 110 00:04:50,566 --> 00:04:52,876 violence". 111 00:04:53,020 --> 00:04:55,710 Narrator: "Broadmoors 200 patients are all 112 00:04:55,710 --> 00:04:57,830 men suffering from mental disorders. 113 00:04:58,641 --> 00:05:01,351 They're classified as vulnerable adults 114 00:05:01,351 --> 00:05:03,411 and only those who have Capacity to 115 00:05:03,411 --> 00:05:05,761 Give Consent have been allowed to talk to 116 00:05:05,761 --> 00:05:06,191 us. 117 00:05:07,138 --> 00:05:10,188 Their faces have been blurred to 118 00:05:10,188 --> 00:05:11,825 protect their identities 119 00:05:16,225 --> 00:05:18,454 [Door closing] 120 00:05:18,454 --> 00:05:19,774 Female voice: "What are you like when 121 00:05:19,774 --> 00:05:21,274 you're not on medication?" 122 00:05:21,274 --> 00:05:22,534 Alex: "Ummm...I'm quite a nasty 123 00:05:22,534 --> 00:05:24,854 person. I'm quite violent, I'm very 124 00:05:24,854 --> 00:05:28,234 violent in most circumstances. Very 125 00:05:28,234 --> 00:05:30,404 antisocial. I don't like spending time 126 00:05:30,404 --> 00:05:33,174 with people. I'm paranoid. I'm, uh, very 127 00:05:33,174 --> 00:05:35,354 paranoid. [stammers] Every person around, 128 00:05:35,354 --> 00:05:37,534 I'm thinking 'what's their intention?' I 129 00:05:37,534 --> 00:05:38,774 come to that, sometimes I come very close 130 00:05:38,774 --> 00:05:41,024 to attacking people because I'm thinking 131 00:05:41,024 --> 00:05:42,755 that they're going to do something to me 132 00:05:42,755 --> 00:05:45,500 and I don't want to get hurt first. Uh, 133 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:47,385 um..I remember one time when I'm off 134 00:05:47,385 --> 00:05:50,261 medication, spent 11 months locked in a 135 00:05:50,261 --> 00:05:52,221 cell. Segregated, due to the fact that I 136 00:05:52,221 --> 00:05:54,441 was too dangerous to come out". 137 00:05:55,581 --> 00:05:57,361 Narrator: 24 year old Alex arrived at 138 00:05:57,361 --> 00:06:00,451 Broadmoor 7 months ago. He was serving a 139 00:06:00,451 --> 00:06:02,781 life sentence in a dedicated prison unit 140 00:06:02,781 --> 00:06:05,481 for highly dangerous prisoners. 141 00:06:05,481 --> 00:06:07,991 They could no longer manage him. 142 00:06:08,139 --> 00:06:09,419 Alex: "When I was younger, we would 143 00:06:09,419 --> 00:06:12,656 chase a seagull... trails off 144 00:06:13,630 --> 00:06:15,870 Narrator: Now in a remissions ward he's 145 00:06:15,870 --> 00:06:17,450 been diagnosed with mental illness and 146 00:06:17,450 --> 00:06:19,370 personality disorder and put on 147 00:06:19,370 --> 00:06:20,870 medication. 148 00:06:20,870 --> 00:06:24,217 One of his symptoms is Auditory Hallucinations. 149 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:25,870 He hears voices. 150 00:06:25,870 --> 00:06:27,690 Alex: "Oh, I was doing a fruit salad 151 00:06:27,690 --> 00:06:29,044 the other day for an assessment. That's 152 00:06:29,044 --> 00:06:31,029 when they do this assessment from 153 00:06:31,029 --> 00:06:34,160 personal motor, motor skills. 154 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,030 It's like for learning disability. 155 00:06:36,030 --> 00:06:37,180 And....Umm... 156 00:06:37,180 --> 00:06:38,260 I was cutting a mango 157 00:06:38,260 --> 00:06:39,910 and I have never, I've never used a sharp knife. 158 00:06:39,910 --> 00:06:41,430 In the seven years I've been away 159 00:06:41,430 --> 00:06:42,600 I've not used a sharp knife 160 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,190 and I was shaking. Literally. 161 00:06:44,190 --> 00:06:46,710 I nearly cut my fingers off cause' 162 00:06:46,710 --> 00:06:48,670 the voices were telling me to attack the 163 00:06:48,670 --> 00:06:50,430 people in the room, with the knife. 164 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:52,310 And, like, they were goading me into it, 165 00:06:52,310 --> 00:06:53,155 and I thought ' I can't do that. 166 00:06:53,155 --> 00:06:53,810 I can't do that. 167 00:06:53,810 --> 00:06:55,820 and so I managed to finish fruit, the 168 00:06:55,820 --> 00:06:57,820 fruit salad, and I thought " wow like, what 169 00:06:57,820 --> 00:07:00,360 achievement'. Cause' mostly stammers a 170 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:01,960 year ago, two years ago, my emotions 171 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:02,820 would have done it. 172 00:07:02,820 --> 00:07:04,810 Ya know?" 173 00:07:05,158 --> 00:07:10,358 [unintelligible speaking] 174 00:07:10,358 --> 00:07:11,798 Man in Sweater: "No. We'll clean it 175 00:07:11,798 --> 00:07:14,028 afterwards. We are Going to give you 176 00:07:14,028 --> 00:07:15,458 bedding for now, okay"? 177 00:07:17,064 --> 00:07:18,984 Narrator: This is Cranfield, the 178 00:07:18,984 --> 00:07:21,624 intensive care ward. Home to the hospitals 179 00:07:21,624 --> 00:07:25,424 most acute mentally ill patients. 180 00:07:25,475 --> 00:07:28,068 [door shutting, keys jangling, people 181 00:07:28,068 --> 00:07:33,015 speaking unintelligibly] 182 00:07:33,501 --> 00:07:35,261 Female voice: "Hi, can we come in and 183 00:07:35,261 --> 00:07:36,841 talk to you, yeah?" 184 00:07:36,841 --> 00:07:39,111 Man in Sweater: "Sit on the bed for us" 185 00:07:39,111 --> 00:07:40,881 Narrator:Any contact with them has to be 186 00:07:40,881 --> 00:07:43,521 carefully planned and executed. 187 00:07:43,521 --> 00:07:45,981 This is a six person unlock. 188 00:07:45,981 --> 00:07:48,131 The door to this patients room can only be 189 00:07:48,131 --> 00:07:52,131 opened with six staff present. 190 00:07:53,829 --> 00:07:54,671 Hospital Staff: "There is always the risk 191 00:07:54,671 --> 00:07:57,304 of violence towards others if 192 00:07:57,304 --> 00:07:59,304 [can't understand] with chronic mental 193 00:07:59,304 --> 00:08:01,474 illness and they will be very distant 194 00:08:01,474 --> 00:08:03,224 throughout the day, but you have to 195 00:08:03,224 --> 00:08:04,824 learn to work with that. 196 00:08:04,824 --> 00:08:09,514 [person sobbing] 197 00:08:09,514 --> 00:08:11,684 My focus in working with this guys is 198 00:08:11,684 --> 00:08:13,744 after telling me that they are here 199 00:08:13,744 --> 00:08:15,232 not because of the illness, they 200 00:08:15,232 --> 00:08:16,552 are here because of violence. 201 00:08:16,552 --> 00:08:18,782 And they only progress from here 202 00:08:18,782 --> 00:08:21,022 if there's a reduction in that violence. 203 00:08:21,022 --> 00:08:22,862 So that message, you know. 204 00:08:22,862 --> 00:08:25,402 It might take time, but gradually 205 00:08:25,402 --> 00:08:27,222 over a period of time, is that 206 00:08:27,222 --> 00:08:28,297 goal through". 207 00:08:28,297 --> 00:08:33,047 [keys jangling, unintelligible talking in background] 208 00:08:33,047 --> 00:08:34,737 Narrator: On this ward, even the most 209 00:08:34,737 --> 00:08:36,856 routine tasks, run a risk of violence and 210 00:08:36,856 --> 00:08:39,266 involve a protocol. 211 00:08:40,245 --> 00:08:42,141 This patient has asked for a drink. 212 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,609 Man in White: "Just keep on the bed trails off 213 00:08:45,872 --> 00:08:47,572 [unintelligible] 214 00:08:47,572 --> 00:08:49,072 Shukran. Shukran 215 00:08:49,072 --> 00:08:51,870 Shukran means thank you, right? 216 00:08:51,870 --> 00:08:54,030 You know, you taught me all this. 217 00:08:57,127 --> 00:08:59,647 laughs 218 00:08:59,701 --> 00:09:10,141 [unintelligible speaking]" 219 00:09:11,765 --> 00:09:13,925 Inmate: [unintelligible] "give me some more?' 220 00:09:14,467 --> 00:09:15,937 Man in White: [unintelligible response] 221 00:09:18,227 --> 00:09:19,187 "Thank you!" 222 00:09:20,612 --> 00:09:21,402 Female voice: "Thank you guys." 223 00:09:24,970 --> 00:09:26,980 Narrator: Life in Broadmoor can be a game 224 00:09:26,980 --> 00:09:28,094 of snakes and ladders. 225 00:09:28,646 --> 00:09:30,636 With patients moving between the hospitals 226 00:09:30,636 --> 00:09:31,956 15 wards according to their 227 00:09:31,956 --> 00:09:33,096 mental state. 228 00:09:34,779 --> 00:09:36,880 [door closing] 229 00:09:38,203 --> 00:09:39,923 Patients who have responded to treatment 230 00:09:39,923 --> 00:09:41,798 can progress to one of the hospitals 231 00:09:41,798 --> 00:09:43,348 Assertive Rehab Wards, where 232 00:09:43,348 --> 00:09:44,998 they're given greater freedom. 233 00:09:47,384 --> 00:09:49,274 Daniel is one of 12 patients on this 234 00:09:49,274 --> 00:09:49,744 ward. 235 00:09:50,930 --> 00:09:52,886 Daniel: "I've been here five years. 236 00:09:52,886 --> 00:09:54,556 Luckily I never went to a high dependency 237 00:09:54,556 --> 00:09:56,236 ward, I came straight to rehab. 238 00:09:56,813 --> 00:10:00,813 And, to be honest, its been... 239 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I wouldn't use the word wonderful... 240 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Cause' eh... it's not wonderful. 241 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But, I've been grateful basically 242 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to come here. 243 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In my spare time I try and engage 244 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in artwork mostly. 245 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This was the, uh... my first real attempt 246 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 at an actual portrait. All done completely 247 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in graphite, and then I moved on to using 248 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 charcoal along with, uh.. graphite. 249 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And the charcoal allows you to, to have 250 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so much more...uhhh...depth in the tone or 251 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 quality. 252 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And then, yeah....I did a self-portrait. 253 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The whole, The whole picture was a 254 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 statement about when I got locked up, 255 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 when I was 14 and I'm now 24. 256 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is me at 24, but uh, that me..... 257 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 back then...sort of thing...." 258 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Narrator: Mental Disorder is no respecter 259 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 of class or education.