Anthony Hardy

There is another name that has become attached to Fred's story, and this one is much darker.

Anthony Hardy.

Hardy would eventually become known as the Camden Ripper.

In 2003, he was convicted of murdering three women in London.

In 1971, when Fred's body was discovered, Hardy was a young man, so geographically there is a connection, and years later the possibility was raised that Fred might somehow have been one of Hardy's earlier victims.

Staffordshire Police reportedly examined information concerning that possibility.

But this is where we need to stop, because there is no established evidence showing Anthony Hardy killed Fred.

No forensic link that has been publicly established.

He became known as the Camden Ripper.

This is the story of Anthony Hardy, a.k.a. the Camden Ripper.

My name's Ben.

I'm Nicole.

She was involved in sex work around King's Cross and had struggled with crack cocaine addictions.

She'd last been seen the previous day, on January 19th, at a homeless charity.

But now she was found dead inside Anthony Hardy's bedroom.

Oh, no.

They immediately launched one of their largest ever manhunts.

Following the discovery of a female torso in his flat, the police identified Anthony Hardy as their prime suspect in the Camden bin bag murders.

hardy was a 51 year old divorcee with four children and a history of alcoholism mental illness and allegations of sexual and indecent assaults he'd been imprisoned three times for car crime and theft and in 1995 had been sectioned under the mental health act he was also known to pick up prostitutes from nearby king's cross hardy had said that one day he'd be famous

The police began a massive search for Hardy.

You never come to terms with it.

The police were soon convinced that Elizabeth and Bridget were not the only women to die at Hardy's hands.

Anthony Hardy had been arrested for the bin bag murders in Camden, but it wasn't the first time he'd been in trouble with the police.

Almost a year earlier, in January 2002, Sergeant Nick Spinks had received a call from one of Hardy's neighbours.

They immediately launched one of their largest ever manhunts.

Following the discovery of a female torso in his flat, the police identified Anthony Hardy as their prime suspect in the Camden Binbag murders.

Hardy was a 51-year-old divorcee with four children and a history of alcoholism, mental illness and allegations of sexual and indecent assaults.

He'd been imprisoned three times for car crime and theft, and in 1995 had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Hardie was taking seven types of medication to treat his diabetes and manic depression.

He was also an outpatient at St. Luke's Mental Hospital in North London.

Anthony Hardy was known to us and the services from 1995 and had various contact with different aspects of our services in the intervening years.

I think there were concerns that he had bipolar disorder where he may be subject to mood swings, elation or even lower mood.