Engrossing, gruesome read, well researched

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This was a fascinating case, I had never heard of Graham Young, boy poisoner before.
The story is quite inexplicable, often with serial killers there has been some kind of trauma or very bad abuse but there just seemed to be the usual family issues in his background.
Nothing horrendous, yet he killed his stepmother and went on to kill frequently in the future into adulthood.
Incarcerated in Broadmoor he literally foxed the psychiatrists and medical people and they thought he had genuinely been rehabilitated yet though finding lodgings and a job when released his campaign of poisonings extended to the workplace.
His goal was to be a famous master poisoner like some of his serial killer heroes and have a wax effigy erected in Madame Tussaud's!
His reign of terror finally ended when he got found out at his workplace, culminating in a huge media frenzy and trial.
Ultimately he seemed to me a very sad, mixed up person, someone who couldn't relate to people so resorted to this kind of destructive, sick and insidious way of contact.
At times, cold, remorseful, boastful and proud of his poisoning accomplishments he just seemed to be a very complex person and someone who was obviously failed by both medical and the prison authorities.
A really interesting and well researched in depth read.