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[Solemn music plays, noises of nature in
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background]
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Narrator: Broadmoor, a word that makes people shiver.
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Most think that Broadmoor is a prison,
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in fact it's a high secure psychiatric hospital,
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and home to some of the countries most
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dangerous and violent offenders.
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[Gate unlocking, mechanical noises]
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After five years of negotiation, and for the
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very first time, the hospital has allowed
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cameras in to meet the men who live behind
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these walls.
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[unintelligible yelling, sound of something slamming]
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[Running foot steps keys jangling]
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[more yelling and sounds of a struggle]
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[door slams]
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[foot steps echo in the hallway]
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Inmate: Broadmoores got this, this history
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about people being all these monsters here basically.
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But you can be violent, and it don't mean you're
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a bad person.
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'Cause sometimes
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you don't....you're not intendin' it.
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Over radio: "Hello Brovo one, two, and go.
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Over radio: "One going to the
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[ unintelligible] all radio. Alpha four.
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Over."
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The easiest reaction in the world is to
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see somebody that has committed something
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atrocious, label them as evil, want to
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lock the door and throw away the key.
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Inmate: "I've probably actually never said
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the words of what I've I actually done.
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I've never admitted it. Still just a blur
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in my head".
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[knocking on door]
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Inmate 2: "I've got born into this Italian
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family. Very, very violent. In some cases
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it would have been better to have killed
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me than to have allowed me to have this
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horrible life that I've had.
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Narrator: With unprecedented access, and
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filmed over a year, this series reveals
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the secrets of life inside Brittians most
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notorious institution.
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[Bell rings]
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[Solemn music]
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Narrator: Broadmoor is perched above the
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Berkshire village of Crowthorne. Just 40
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miles from the center of London.
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When people think of Broadmoore they think of
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Ronny Kray, Peter Sutcliffe, Robert
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Napper, and Kenneth Erskine. Some of the
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most dangerous killers the country has
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ever known.
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"The public perceive this place as 'oh,
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that's where the Yorkshire Rippers locked
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up, that's Rachel Nickell's killers locked
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up'. Broadmoor is an institution of lots of
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people. We're not all rapist pedophiles,
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or murderers. There is people in here for
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self-harming in prison, there's people in
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here for buggary and they've gotten in a prison,
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and there's people in here for very very
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evil things.
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and it brushes with all the same brush
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what station [unintelligible]".
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[loud string crescendo]
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Narrator: First built as a victorian
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lunatic asylum for the criminally insane,
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today Broadmoor is an NHS hospital.
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Over its 150 year history, its been a secretive
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and mysterious institution.
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Staff are under strict instructions not to
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discuss patients outside the hospital walls.
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[clicking as items are placed on conveyer
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and beeping of machinery]
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Many won't even admit to working here.
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Staff Member: " Close, close family
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members know that, obviously, where we
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work. But if we're in a normal mainstream
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than you would, you would probably say you
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work in the hospital or something. Don't
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really talk about the place."
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Staff Member #2: " Listen, if you said
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that you worked here. Ah, boy. You'd just
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spend the whole of a day, or the
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afternoon, with a barrage of questions about the place.
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So, it's just easy to say you work for the
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NHS".
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Narrator: They're told not to share
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personal information with the patients
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either, and to leave their private lives
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along with their possessions. At the front door.
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Broadmoor's most notorious patients,
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like Peter Sutcliffe and Kenneth Erskine,
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have chosen not to participate.
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But many of the men here have been front
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page news and are vilified by society.
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This is the first time they've been
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allowed to tell their stories.
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Alex: I've everything from taking
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hostages, more hostage taking, stabbings,
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ya' know. Uhhhh... more assaults, violent
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assaults, fire setting off. I set a whole
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stammers a fire in a hospital. A
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psychiatric hospital, the first one I
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ever went to. Umm.. yeah. Just mainly
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violence and whatnot. My history is mainly
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violence".
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Narrator: "Broadmoors 200 patients are all
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men suffering from mental disorders.
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They're classified as vulnerable adults
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and only those who have Capacity to
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Give Consent have been allowed to talk to
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us.
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Their faces have been blurred to
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protect their identities
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[Door closing]
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Female voice: "What are you like when
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you're not on medication?"
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Alex: "Ummm...I'm quite a nasty
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person. I'm quite violent, I'm very
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violent in most circumstances. Very
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antisocial. I don't like spending time
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with people. I'm paranoid. I'm, uh, very
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paranoid. [stammers] Every person around,
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I'm thinking 'what's their intention?' I
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come to that, sometimes I come very close
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to attacking people because I'm thinking
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that they're going to do something to me
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and I don't want to get hurt first. Uh,
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um..I remember one time when I'm off
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medication, spent 11 months locked in a
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cell. Segregated, due to the fact that I
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was too dangerous to come out".
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Narrator: 24 year old Alex arrived at
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Broadmoor 7 months ago. He was serving a
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life sentence in a dedicated prison unit
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for highly dangerous prisoners.
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They could no longer manage him.
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Alex: "When I was younger, we would
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chase a seagull... trails off
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Narrator: Now in a remissions ward he's
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been diagnosed with mental illness and
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personality disorder and put on
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medication.
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One of his symptoms is Auditory Hallucinations.
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He hears voices.
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Alex: "Oh, I was doing a fruit salad
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the other day for an assessment. That's
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when they do this assessment from
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personal motor, motor skills.
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It's like for learning disability.
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And....Umm...
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I was cutting a mango
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and I have never, I've never used a sharp knife.
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In the seven years I've been away
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I've not used a sharp knife
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and I was shaking. Literally.
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I nearly cut my fingers off cause'
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the voices were telling me to attack the
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people in the room, with the knife.
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And, like, they were goading me into it,
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and I thought ' I can't do that.
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I can't do that.
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and so I managed to finish fruit, the
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fruit salad, and I thought " wow like, what
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achievement'. Cause' mostly stammers a
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year ago, two years ago, my emotions
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would have done it.
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Ya know?"
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[unintelligible speaking]
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Man in Sweater: "No. We'll clean it
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afterwards. We are Going to give you
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bedding for now, okay"?
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Narrator: This is Cranfield, the
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intensive care ward. Home to the hospitals
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most acute mentally ill patients.
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[door shutting, keys jangling, people
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speaking unintelligibly]
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Female voice: "Hi, can we come in and
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talk to you, yeah?"
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Man in Sweater: "Sit on the bed for us"
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Narrator:Any contact with them has to be
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carefully planned and executed.
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This is a six person unlock.
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The door to this patients room can only be
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opened with six staff present.
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Hospital Staff: "There is always the risk
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of violence towards others if
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[can't understand] with chronic mental
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illness and they will be very distant
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throughout the day, but you have to
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learn to work with that.
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[person sobbing]
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My focus in working with this guys is
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after telling me that they are here
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not because of the illness, they
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are here because of violence.
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And they only progress from here
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if there's a reduction in that violence.
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So that message, you know.
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It might take time, but gradually
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over a period of time, is that
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goal through".
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[keys jangling, unintelligible talking in background]
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Narrator: On this ward, even the most
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routine tasks, run a risk of violence and
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involve a protocol.
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This patient has asked for a drink.
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Man in White: "Just keep on the bed trails off
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[unintelligible]
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Shukran. Shukran
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Shukran means thank you, right?
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You know, you taught me all this.
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laughs
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[unintelligible speaking]"
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Inmate: [unintelligible] "give me some more?'
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Man in White: [unintelligible response]
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"Thank you!"
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Female voice: "Thank you guys."
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Narrator: Life in Broadmoor can be a game
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of snakes and ladders.
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With patients moving between the hospitals
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15 wards according to their
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mental state.
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[door closing]
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Patients who have responded to treatment
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can progress to one of the hospitals
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Assertive Rehab Wards, where
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they're given greater freedom.
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Daniel is one of 12 patients on this
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ward.
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Daniel: "I've been here five years.
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Luckily I never went to a high dependency
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ward, I came straight to rehab.
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And, to be honest, its been...
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I wouldn't use the word wonderful...
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Cause' eh... it's not wonderful.
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But, I've been grateful basically
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to come here.
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In my spare time I try and engage
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in artwork mostly.
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This was the, uh... my first real attempt
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at an actual portrait. All done completely
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in graphite, and then I moved on to using
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charcoal along with, uh.. graphite.
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And the charcoal allows you to, to have
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so much more...uhhh...depth in the tone or
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quality.
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And then, yeah....I did a self-portrait.
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The whole, The whole picture was a
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statement about when I got locked up,
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when I was 14 and I'm now 24.
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This is me at 24, but uh, that me.....
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back then...sort of thing...."
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Narrator: Mental Disorder is no respecter
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of class or education.