John Martin Scripps
John Martin Scripps was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 9 December 1959. He was convicted of his first crime in May 1974, when he was sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge and fined £10 by Highgate Juvenile Court for burglary. He met María Pilar Arellanos, of Cancún, and married her in 1980. They travelled together for two years until 1982, when they were jailed for theft, burglary and resisting arrest. He escaped while on home leave but was later re-arrested. In 2008, he fled to Thailand and killed three tourists, Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand and Gerard Lowe in Singapore. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders
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John Martin Scripps was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 9 December 1959. He was convicted of his first crime in May 1974, when he was sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge and fined £10 by Highgate Juvenile Court for burglary. He met María Pilar Arellanos, of Cancún, and married her in 1980. They travelled together for two years until 1982, when they were jailed for theft, burglary and resisting arrest. He escaped while on home leave but was later re-arrested. In July 1992, Winchester Crown Court added another six years to the original sentence, which would have kept him behind bars until 2001 had he not escaped again. On August 20, 1993, Martin was transferred from Albany Prison to Mount Mount Prison in Hemelstead, Herts. In October 1994 he escaped while home leave, which was granted only two days before he was executed. His mother asked authorities not to release him after being sentenced to death, noting that he had sold all his belongings to fellow inmates while in prison. He is also one of the first Westerners to be executed in Singapore since independence, the first one being Johannes Van Damme. The judge did not believe Martin’s account of events and sentenced him to death by hanging, making him the first Briton since Singapore’s independence from Britain and Malaysia to be given the death penalty. The Home Office reiterated that Martin was not to be released from prison until he had been buried with his mother’s permission, and that he would not be buried after being buried with all his possessions.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 48. He had been sentenced to life in prison in 1994, but was released after serving just six months. He has since lived in Australia, where he has worked as a chef and a butcher. He also ran a successful business selling antiques and antiques. In 2007, he was arrested in Singapore for trafficking in drugs, and carried heroin between Asia and Europe for a syndicate. The drugs were found in a safe deposit box in a bank in Orchard Road in Singapore, from which officers from Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau seized 1.5 kilogrammes of heroin worth about US$1 million. In 2008, he fled to Thailand and killed three tourists, Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand and Gerard Lowe in Singapore. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders, for which British tabloids nicknamed him “the tourist from Hell”. He cut up all his victims’ bodies, using butchery skills he had acquired in prison, before disposing of them. He claimed that Lowe’s death was an accident and that a friend of his killed the Damudes. After his release from prison in August 1993, he became a model prisoner, and was later promoted to the position of butcher, under the training of James Quigley, a prison caterer with more than 20 years’ experience. They taught him how to dismember and remove the bone from animals slaughtering them.
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