Britain's Most Evil Killers Season 10 Episode 4

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00:00.

00:08On the 17th of December, 1985,

00:12a police officer on duty in Bradford, West Yorkshire,

00:16noticed a car parked suspiciously.

00:20When he began to follow the car,

00:23it sped off into the night.

00:25As the car speeds away,

00:30the police become ever more convinced

00:32that something's wrong with it and with the driver.

00:35After a high-speed chase,

00:38the driver crashed into a traffic island

00:41and police managed to arrest him.

00:45Why had he tried to get away from us had he stolen the car?

00:49He came out with a reply which I will never forget,

00:52and that reply was,

00:54OK, lads, you've got me for murder.

00:59The driver was 40-year-old George Naylor,

01:02and on the back seat of the car

01:04was the body of Deborah Kershaw.

01:07The 22-year-old had tragically been strangled

01:10just moments earlier.

01:14They looked at his record and realized

01:17they had not only a man who had admitted to killing someone,

01:21but somebody who had for many, many years proved

01:26to be a dangerous individual.

01:31A routine traffic stop that escalated into a high-speed car chase

01:36had incredibly unveiled George Naylor

01:40as one of Britain's most evil killers.

01:43they had a general adapted news for him as one of them

01:48was killed by the killer, and it had also easily died.

01:50That was a rough época on the case for young age.

01:52What happened with George Maylor's father?

01:53Nobody was子 blacks knows who had killed or killed my brothers.

01:54There had already haven't been in stage at all,

01:56until the bloomers.

01:57THE END

02:09When George Naylor was convicted of murder in February 1997,

02:14it brought an end to his reign of terror.

02:18It was a relief to the women he'd spent a lifetime torturing

02:22and closure for the investigators who'd hunted him down.

02:27George Naylor was one of the few truly evil people I ever met

02:32in 31 years of being a police officer in Bradford.

02:36I'm absolutely convinced in my own mind

02:40that any time Naylor had his liberty,

02:43then women were not safe.

02:46Naylor targeted vulnerable women throughout his life,

02:50never showing remorse for what he'd done.

02:54What always saddens me is that these girls just became a headline.

03:01Naylor became the story, and the girls are almost forgotten.

03:07There were many opportunities to put Naylor away for life,

03:12but he managed to evade justice for years.

03:15Naylor's only conscience was about himself.

03:19He had no sense of anybody else, particularly when he came to women.

03:23He was a brute, a cold, calculating brute,

03:28who killed because he could.

03:30This killer's story begins in West Bowling, Yorkshire, in 1944.

03:41We don't know a great deal about George Naylor's early life.

03:45We know it was troubled, but we know very little about his parents

03:49or indeed siblings.

03:51Even as a child, George Naylor showed his violent tendencies.

03:57He used violence to manipulate others.

04:00It wasn't just that he couldn't control it, it was his power.

04:05He's using violence to gain status,

04:08so that people will maybe steer clear of him, respect him,

04:14all of those kinds of things,

04:16and give himself a little bit of power and control.

04:18As a young person, his violence was noticed,

04:23and it escalated to the point where, as a teenager,

04:27he was sent to Borstal.

04:29Firstly, a series of petty crimes, robbery and theft.

04:33But then his crimes seemed to get more and more extreme

04:37and more and more violent.

04:44When Naylor was just 17,

04:46he committed his first serious offence.

04:49He's broken into a house

04:51where the resident was an elderly female.

04:54He's beaten the female occupant up with his fists.

04:57He's threatened her with a gun.

04:59He's stolen her property and her money.

05:02Now, that's a really serious offence.

05:05He'd been building up to violence for quite a long time.

05:08He also used that violence, committed that robbery on a woman.

05:14And that suggests it's that bully thing about him

05:18where he's going to target somebody

05:21who's maybe weaker than him, easy to overpower.

05:28By the summer of 1967, the now 22-year-old Naylor

05:33already had a long list of criminal charges to his name.

05:38But that didn't affect his luck with the ladies.

05:42Naylor was a charmer.

05:44Throughout his life, he managed to charm two women

05:48to becoming his partner.

05:50But very quickly, they began to realize

05:53that he had a very different soul

05:55to the charming man they had fallen for.

05:58And he was violent towards them.

06:01George Naylor met his first partner in a pub

06:05and she literally fell for his charm.

06:07He was, like his character or not,

06:10capable of being truly charming.

06:12The two of them went on to have two children together.

06:16What I can absolutely guarantee

06:18is that relationship had problems from the very beginning.

06:23People like Naylor are inherently manipulative.

06:27This is a man who forces what he wants.

06:30Naylor's first partner was subject

06:32to six years of physical and sexual abuse.

06:36When you're experiencing coercive control from a partner

06:39and Naylor was undoubtedly coercively controlling,

06:43the one thing you can't do is leave, escape.

06:48Because all of those things that he's been doing to her

06:51are to trap her right where she is.

06:54Because he believes very strongly he owns her.

06:58He possesses her.

07:00She had desperately tried to seek help.

07:03They'd had children together.

07:04And she'd contacting social services to say,

07:07I need to get away.

07:09He is violent. I am frightened.

07:12And I think the thing that strikes me,

07:14the response was so typical of that era.

07:18They told her, better a bad father than none at all.

07:24In 1973, his partner managed to get away from him.

07:29But Naylor refused to let her go.

07:32He wanted to frighten her back to him.

07:35He would break into her house.

07:37He would attack her. He was stalking her.

07:41She must have been absolutely terrified.

07:49In 1974, Naylor was living in a flat in Bradford,

07:54where his crimes took an even darker turn.

07:58He broke into a neighbor's flat,

08:01a block in which he lived, and he donned a mask.

08:04And he attacked a 60-year-old woman.

08:11Viciously.

08:13And raped her.

08:15He'd set upon her just because he could,

08:17and because it was another example

08:19of his growing pathological hatred of women.

08:27He committed some very serious,

08:29the most horrific acts against this woman.

08:32Stripped her naked.

08:35Beat her.

08:36Bitter.

08:37He raped her.

08:39And he committed serious, depraved sexual acts.

08:47This, even for him, is an escalation.

08:52I think the wearing of the mask shows the premeditation.

08:56He knew what he was going to do.

08:59He knew that it was going to be a serious offense,

09:03and he did not want this lady to be able to identify him.

09:08As a police investigation began,

09:11Naylor seemed determined to do whatever it took

09:15to cover up his crimes.

09:17He had the gall to go back to the scene of his crime

09:23and play the part of worried neighbour, concerned friend.

09:27Asking if there was anything that he could do for her.

09:32He knew that if he went back,

09:35if fibres from his clothes were found,

09:38if his fingerprints were found,

09:39he could say,

09:40well, of course,

09:42I merely went to check that this poor woman was okay.

09:47It appeared that Naylor had tried to outwit the police,

09:51but there was one thing he'd overlooked.

09:53Shards from the very window he'd broken

09:57in order to access the flat were found in his coat pocket,

10:01which would lead police to eventually arrest and charge Naylor.

10:05There were also some traces, fibres,

10:09from his pullover on her pajamas.

10:12In the end, those small things caught Naylor.

10:16He hadn't expected them.

10:23Naylor was sentenced to 15 years for the horrific attack,

10:28but was released before serving his full term.

10:32The rape was brutal. It was horrific.

10:33And yet he served less than 10 years.

10:37Within weeks of his release from prison,

10:40he was hunting on the streets of Bradford.

10:43He would have been honing those skills of manipulation

10:47and showing his status and gaining status for a decade.

10:52And then we let him out on the streets again.

10:55And he's not going to stop.

10:57In 1985, George Naylor walked out of prison a free man,

11:07but he was far from rehabilitated.

11:12Just eight weeks after his release,

11:15he would escalate from brutal rapist

11:18to cold-blooded killer.

11:20In 1985, 40-year-old convicted rapist George Naylor was released onto the streets of West Yorkshire.

11:38Bradford in the 80s and 90s was only just recovering from the reign of terror that Peter Sutcliffe had caused.

11:55But during that time, women selling sex hadn't stopped.

12:01What had changed was the reason for it.

12:05By the time Naylor was prowling the streets, drugs and alcohol had become the main reason.

12:14So if a young woman became addicted, that was a way to feed her addiction.

12:21The sex worker community was forced to operate in the shadows.

12:26Lindsay Walton is CEO of a charity trying to raise awareness of their stories.

12:33Street sex workers often find the need to operate in areas where they are a bit more off the beaten track.

12:40Obviously, that then increases the danger.

12:43You have to make very quick decisions on if you trust someone.

12:47The vulnerability of sex workers was about to be exposed in the most horrific way.

12:59In the early hours of the 17th of December, 1985,

13:03police officer Mark Plovey was on duty in the red light district when something caught his eye.

13:13I saw a car.

13:14It was parked off City Road in an area which I found suspicious.

13:20The car, to my mind, was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

13:26So they begin to follow the car, and then the car speeds up,

13:30and they give chase, literally, through Bradford.

13:36The distance is starting to increase.

13:39It's starting to pull away from me, which was concerning.

13:43The driver actually made a right turn at 70-plus miles an hour.

13:49So you can imagine what happened then.

13:51And the vehicle actually came to a rest in the middle of this traffic island.

14:00Much to my surprise, the driver's door was flung open,

14:04and the mail's out when he's off running.

14:06The driver of the car continued to run, scaling numerous walls,

14:14desperate to outrun the police, closing in behind him.

14:18It took the officers some time to catch the individual on foot.

14:25And eventually, they tackled him and brought him to the ground to arrest him.

14:29The man the police had captured was 40-year-old George Naylor.

14:40We arrested him on suspicion of stealing the car,

14:44but then we noticed that he was sweating absolutely profusely.

14:49He was emotional, he was agitated, he was crying, he was sobbing.

14:54They've just had a chase, they know that this person has got something to hide.

15:00They then present as emotionally strange as well.

15:05It's just going to keep layering over with the suspicions that they might have.

15:11Why had he tried to get away from us?

15:14Had he stolen the car?

15:16And then he came out with a reply which I will never forget.

15:20And that reply was,

15:23OK, lads, you've got me for murder.

15:26I'm glad you've caught me.

15:28Which prompted me, of course, to ask him, what do you mean by that?

15:32To which he replied, there's a dead prostitute in the back of the car.

15:35That one sentence says so much about him, there's a dead prostitute in the back of the car.

15:49It's almost saying to the police, it's not the most serious offence you've ever seen.

15:53And I think that reveals about him how absolutely awful he is as a human being.

16:02A routine traffic stop had intensified rapidly and was now looking like the beginnings of a full-blown murder investigation.

16:12I had a look in the back of the car and I saw the body of a female.

16:21There was blood around her head and face.

16:24Her legs were behind the front passenger seat, down in the well.

16:30And her torso was on the back seat, behind the driver's seat.

16:35When police looked into the name George Naylor, they discovered a man with a long history of offences.

16:45We put him in the back of the transit van and then I started to take a closer look at him

16:52and I could see that he'd got blood all over his hands and he'd got blood all down the white jumper that he was wearing.

17:05Naylor would have gone through quite a few different emotions.

17:10He is trapped and he does not like being trapped so he's going to be looking for any chink in the armour to get out of that entrapment.

17:21Naylor was handcuffed in the day cell.

17:24He became increasingly agitated and then he ran to the toilet and he shoved both hands down the toilet bowl.

17:35And began to very, very quickly rinse the blood off his hands.

17:40He then turned to myself and said,

17:42that will make it more difficult for you, you bastards.

17:51But the police were already one step ahead of Naylor.

17:56Mark recognized the victim from his work in the red light district.

18:00She was 22-year-old sex worker Deborah Kershaw.

18:07It's really sad that we know so little about Deborah and I think that does speak to the way that sex workers were viewed at the time.

18:15That she wasn't notable in society enough for them to keep a record of this wonderful woman's life and what she meant to people.

18:27The sex workers are very, very often targeted by men who specifically want to hurt and kill women.

18:37It's not the fact that they're sex workers, it's the fact that they have access to them.

18:44He wanted a woman and he got a woman.

18:47Naylor had been caught red-handed and was swiftly charged with murder.

18:52But faced with prison time, he started to change his story.

18:58He was going to put the blame on his victim.

19:00Deborah, he said, had become aggressive and cooperative when he'd said to her that he didn't have enough money.

19:07His excuse was she died after he'd put her in a headlock.

19:14In other words, the killer was blaming the victim for her own death.

19:21This is a man who will try every possible escape route with no moral code whatsoever.

19:29No shame, no remorse, no guilt, no nothing, just me, me, me.

19:32I want to get out here.

19:37The trial began at Leeds Crown Court.

19:42The jury weren't allowed to know about Naylor's violent past.

19:47They had to make a judgment based purely on the evidence of Deborah's murder.

19:54The post-mortem on Deborah said that Deborah had been strangled,

20:01and the strangulation was done by both hands around the neck.

20:07Repeated gripping over and over.

20:13Which in essence caused a patchwork of bruising around the neck from the front to the back.

20:20When Naylor gets to trial, the defense make a great play of the fact that Deborah had a very frail windpipe.

20:27And suggest that it was perhaps their client who was suggesting it was a tragic accident during consensual sex.

20:37In a crushing blow to prosecutors and the family of Deborah Kershaw,

20:41the jury believed Naylor's version of events and found him guilty not of murder but of manslaughter.

20:51That was a huge error of judgment.

20:55Naylor's obviously a really clever performer.

20:58To persuade a jury that somehow his crimes were not as bad as they were.

21:05That he was not a murderer but an unfortunate killer who'd made a mistake.

21:11And that's unforgivable.

21:13It was, I suppose, an indication to him that he could get away with whatever he wanted.

21:18After the verdict, the jury were made aware of Naylor's criminal background for the first time.

21:27It was clear to me, looking across at the 12 members of the jury, that they were hashing, white-faced,

21:35indeed quite shocked when they heard about his character and background.

21:39And I have no doubt, in my mind, that perhaps as some of them returned home,

21:45they obviously thought, perhaps we've got this one wrong.

21:52Despite escaping a murder conviction, George Naylor was still sentenced to life in prison.

21:59And even behind bars, the rage remained inside of him.

22:04At one point, he made threats that, should he ever get out of prison,

22:08for killing Deborah, he would pay me a visit.

22:14That's putting it politely.

22:17He's trying to assert his status, you're not better than me,

22:22so you better be careful.

22:24When I get out of here, I'm going to hurt you.

22:27Throughout his life, he's used fear to try and control people.

22:32Just the same old, same old.

22:33He had nothing else, really.

22:36Just one year into his imprisonment, Naylor appealed his sentence and went before a new judge.

22:43His legal team claimed that he no longer posed a threat to the public.

22:48Staggeringly, especially when you look at his previous history and now know what was to follow,

22:55the judge agreed with him.

22:57He said virtually that he posed no threat to the general public, that that threat was barren.

23:05And in fact, his sentence was reduced to just 11 years.

23:11Well, I don't want to use expletives, but of course, I was furious.

23:17That must have been heartbreaking for the family, friends, and loved ones of Deborah.

23:23Police thought they had finally put George Naylor behind bars for life.

23:33But in a stunning turn of events, after serving just seven and a half years,

23:39he was out again, no longer just a rapist, but a practiced killer.

23:43Emboldened by the legal system, Naylor was a free man and primed to kill again.

24:00In 1993, 48-year-old George Naylor was once again a free man,

24:06with a record for both rape and manslaughter.

24:09But prison hadn't slowed him down.

24:13Behind bars, he'd kept up his talent for charm

24:17and had even left prison with something no one expected, a new wife.

24:29He managed to persuade a woman that he was a man who should be and could be loved.

24:35He was actually married in prison.

24:39The woman who married him knew nothing of his past,

24:42but this was not a man who could be tamed.

24:46When Naylor left prison, he moved with his new wife

24:50to South Shields in the North East.

24:53She thought he was a nice person, a different person to the one he actually was.

25:01And unfortunately, when he was released, she found out very quickly

25:08what a dangerous person Naylor was.

25:11Eventually, his wife was forced to get a restraining order on him.

25:16He tried to strangle her.

25:17She thought she was going to die, and the marriage was over.

25:22Naylor moved back to Bradford with tragic consequences.

25:26On the 9th of June, 1995, police were called to the home of 18-year-old Maureen Stepan,

25:45where her boyfriend had found her dead.

25:48A murder inquiry was launched.

25:51I was a detective sergeant working at the local police station in Bradford,

25:54so I was part of the investigation team.

25:58The investigation began by learning more about the 18-year-old.

26:06Maureen was a young girl, an attractive girl,

26:10came from a good family, and we met her mother and father.

26:14But like many young people, she eventually got involved in drugs.

26:19Her parents tried desperately to cope.

26:24They went to social services, and they said, please help us.

26:27She was sent to establishments in London and elsewhere in the country,

26:33but she never could quite kick the addiction.

26:37Once she'd become addicted to heroin,

26:40then it was incredibly difficult to fund that addiction.

26:42Working in the sex trade was just one way of actually funding that heroin addiction.

26:49Frequently, she was found walking the streets of Bradford and looking for customers.

26:56On the night of her murder, Maureen had been working on the street.

27:01Investigators needed to figure out who she'd met that night.

27:05We just simply had other accounts from her friends who had said she was standing on this particular street corner.

27:13A car pulled up, she got in, she went off.

27:16But then she came back, and we saw her again later on.

27:19But then we realized after a while that after one particular meeting, then she disappeared.

27:25Clearly, this would seem to be when she met her killer, went back to her house and was killed.

27:32Police had a timeline, but nobody could identify her abductor.

27:42It was a dead end.

27:44Investigators went back to Maureen's body.

27:48Maybe it could provide clues as to who had brutally murdered her.

27:53Her clothing had been removed, and she'd been strangled with her own tights.

27:57We saw cigarette burns on her body, so she'd been mutilated after death.

28:04It was clearly a sick individual who'd done that to somebody.

28:10That shows to me a lot of rage, a lot of hatred towards what the victim represents, women.

28:21He absolutely wanted to show you are nothing.

28:27I am better.

28:28I am above you.

28:31You are literally nothing to me.

28:40Investigators appealed to the public for help in catching this violent killer.

28:45Someone came forward saying they had information about a local resident, George Naylor.

28:54George had recently visited a friend of his and had asked him if he would wash some clothing.

29:04That was very unusual.

29:05You know, why would George Naylor need someone else to wash his clothing?

29:09So he became a very strong person of interest from our point of view.

29:16It's hardly a surprise that Naylor becomes a possible suspect.

29:21He's known as a sex offender.

29:23He's killed before.

29:25So he gets onto a shortlist very quickly.

29:28As police investigated the now 50-year-old George Naylor, they found more and more red flags.

29:37We discovered that he had fled Bradford, where he had a house.

29:43That in itself was unusual.

29:45In fleeing, he drew even more attention to himself.

29:50It's one of those panic decisions that really, he should have thought about it more.

29:56Police discovered that Naylor hadn't gone far.

29:59He was back at his estranged wife's home in South Shields.

30:03On the 16th of June, 1995, the police felt that Naylor was a strong enough suspect to arrest him for the murder of Maureen Stepan.

30:14Having arrested many, many people, his reaction was quite unusual.

30:19He didn't panic.

30:20He didn't protest.

30:22He wasn't shocked.

30:23One of the first things he asked is he wanted to go to the toilet.

30:28Now, something about George's manner and demeanor at that stage told me that something strange was going to happen.

30:37Turned his back on me and he began to urinate.

30:41I could see he was fumbling around and something strange was going on.

30:44George had a load of pills and he was trying to get those pills out and to swallow them.

30:57So we very quickly disabled him, overpowered him, removed the pills from his hands and took them away from him and placed him in handcuffs.

31:07Now in police custody, Naylor denied knowing Maureen and said he had nothing to do with her murder.

31:19Detectives needed to find evidence to link him to Maureen.

31:23They started by searching his marital home.

31:27We noticed that the house had a telephone answering system.

31:31A lot of calls coming into the house were logged.

31:34So we were able to see the numbers that had been ringing the house.

31:39When we spoke to his partner, she informed us that on the night of the offence,

31:46she had gone out with a group of friends and he was not happy about that.

31:50In fact, he was furious.

31:52While she was out, he kept on ringing and ringing and ringing her house to find out where she was.

31:59But that gave us a little gold mine of evidence because all those numbers that we found on the telephone answering machine were Bradford numbers.

32:11That allowed us to prove that George was in the red light area, very, very close to where Maureen Stepan had been last seen and had actually been working that night.

32:24Naylor was forced to admit that he had been in the Bradford area, but it still wasn't enough to charge him.

32:31Fortunately, the police were able to retrieve the clothing that he'd been wearing that night.

32:36It had been washed, but they were able to actually still find enough material to make a test on.

32:43They were able to say that the jeans that George Naylor had dropped off to be washed had the blood of Maureen Stepan on the knee.

32:56Investigators now had compelling evidence that linked Naylor not just to the area, but directly to Maureen's murder.

33:06We sort of forced him into a corner where he had to admit actual contact with Maureen.

33:12George's account changed dramatically.

33:15And then what he said was,

33:16I did meet somebody that fits the description of Maureen Stepan on the night in question.

33:24She did get into my car and we did have sex, but I did not kill her and I did not go back to her house.

33:32Typically for Naylor, even when he's confronted by really clear evidence, DNA, the phone calls, all the rest,

33:39he's still trying to wriggle out of it.

33:41He's still trying to say, no, no, it's a misunderstanding.

33:43You know, it wasn't me.

33:45As you would expect from a man whose vanity knew few bounds.

33:48Detectives were certain they had their man, and on the 17th of June, George Naylor was charged with the murder of Maureen Stepan.

34:01The police had evidence to show a man with a history of violence, angry at his wife and a young woman who simply crossed his path.

34:12Maureen was obviously desperate that night.

34:14She was still on the streets at 2.30 in the morning.

34:18It was then that Naylor approached her and asked her for sex.

34:24He had spent the evening in a local pub.

34:27He was getting more and more angry.

34:29He tried to contact his wife to persuade her to take him back.

34:34And by the time his car pulled up where Maureen stood in a usual spot in Bradford, he was fuming.

34:44What he's suffering in his mind is massive injustice meted out on him by a woman.

34:55We have this massive entitlement and status issue.

35:00He's going to take it out on another woman.

35:04He was very jealous.

35:06And therefore, by picking up a person working in the sex trade, he was going to get his own back.

35:12He saw Maureen, George picked her up, and then they ended up going back to the house.

35:19She will have had seconds to make a decision as to whether it was safe enough.

35:24And with certain individuals like Naylor, I think that if she hadn't got in willingly, he probably would have forced her in anyway.

35:33Police were confident that they had a watertight case against Naylor.

35:44But he'd managed to evade justice once before.

35:48Investigators were desperate to make sure that history wouldn't repeat itself.

35:53But George Naylor was going to do whatever it took to try and get away with murder.

36:00Again.

36:01In 1997, George Naylor was already a convicted killer and rapist.

36:16And now he once again faced prison for the murder of 18-year-old Maureen Stepan.

36:21The trial began at Sheffield Crown Court with Maureen's family in attendance.

36:31Now, I did meet Maureen's family at court.

36:35We did everything we could to comfort them, to give them support, to assist them in whatever way we could.

36:43Families want to know the facts, even if those facts are incredibly painful.

36:51And to add to that, you've got somebody who you know has done it.

36:56All the evidence is pointing that way, who's going to start throwing out every kind of defense.

37:03Blame the victim, make himself seem like a wonderful, lovely person.

37:07And all the time, they've just got to sit there in silence and try and maintain dignity.

37:14So hard.

37:16By 1997, the law had changed.

37:19And unlike his trial over a decade earlier, the jury were now allowed to hear a lot more about Naylor's violent past.

37:27With Naylor, his two offenses were so incredibly similar in so many ways.

37:33The MO, the way that the women died.

37:39We can say, jury, you need to know about this.

37:46The prosecution laid bare Naylor's history of raping and killing.

37:52And Maureen's DNA on his trousers left him nowhere to hide.

37:57Finally, George Naylor was found guilty of murder.

38:02Justice had, seemingly, been served.

38:05On the 6th of February, 1997, he was given a life sentence.

38:11However, Naylor was an arch manipulator, not just of women, but of the system.

38:18And he appealed that murder conviction.

38:23He'd been successful before.

38:24He was a man willing to just keep trying and trying and trying.

38:31Worked for him in the past.

38:33Worth a punt, I think, is probably how he would have seen it.

38:37In 1999, Naylor was granted a retrial on the grounds that the jury should not have been told about his previous manslaughter conviction.

38:47On this trial, we weren't allowed to mention anything about the previous offence where Deborah Kircher had been killed.

38:54It went simply and solely on the evidence relating to Maureen Stepan.

38:58The prosecution needed to try a new tactic to convince the jury of Naylor's bad character.

39:05Both his estranged wife and the mother of his children were brave enough to speak against him.

39:10Naylor's previous partners testify that he is a violent man towards women, that he is not of good character, that he is, in a sense, hiding in plain sight.

39:22He looks charming and nonchalant and ordinary, and yet he truly isn't.

39:32Both women were certain of one thing.

39:35If Naylor was released, then he would kill again.

39:38After yet another trial, the jury found Naylor guilty for the second time.

39:48He tried to escape justice, but he was ordered to serve at least 20 years behind bars.

39:55For Maureen's family, the seemingly endless trials were finally over.

40:01I do believe that there was a big sense of relief at the end, that this was finally the end of this saga.

40:08You can never forget your family members that have been killed like this, but people have to move on, have to try and build a life again.

40:15But knowing that the killer's being caught and properly punished is a big factor in moving on and getting over and grieving properly.

40:24Naylor had a significantly negative impact on so many different lives, and those are just the ones we know about.

40:34So this is a man who was trashing his way through life, hurting everybody who came into his path.

40:44Naylor didn't appear to see his victims as people.

40:47It was as if Maureen's and Deborah's lives meant nothing to him.

40:52It's vital that we give a voice for Maureen and Deborah.

40:56They need to be heard.

40:59They are someone's best friend, someone's mum.

41:02They are good people and do not deserve to be thrown away in the way that society treats them.

41:10Often these men, these killers, these vicious, violent, sadistic men, excuse their behavior by saying,

41:21oh, well, she was only working the streets.

41:26I always like to switch it around.

41:30To say Naylor was the weak, pathetic individual here.

41:37The girls were sad victims of the circumstances that they had found themselves in.

41:42Drugs drive young women then, as now, to sell sex.

41:49And we have to accept that is a fact.

41:52And as such, they are too easily prey for violent, vicious killers like Naylor.

42:00Naylor was finally back behind bars, but many people involved in the case

42:12feel that he should never have been freed to kill for a second time.

42:17I don't think justice was served in the end

42:19because he should never have got out from a killing having done seven and a half years,

42:24and Maureen should still be alive to this date

42:27because he should have been in prison.

42:29The tragedy of this case is the warning signs were always there.

42:36I think Naylor should have been stopped much earlier.

42:39There is no question in my mind that justice was not served,

42:43particularly in the case of Deborah.

42:45He was a man with, I believe, an evil gene,

42:48and a man who would not be satisfied unless he satisfied himself,

42:53and his objectives were always women,

42:55and therefore, any woman who came across his bowels

42:58was in danger from him.

43:08On the 17th of December 2021, George Naylor died of a brain aneurysm

43:15in HMP Franklin in Durham.

43:18He was 77 years old.

43:22I suppose, really, only at that point did I really truly believe

43:25that he was no longer a danger to the public,

43:28and, you know, if George would have been released even as an elderly man,

43:32I still think he would have had the potential to do harm to women.

43:37So, in that context, the public no longer need to be in fear of George Naylor.

43:43He's an insignificant predatory killer who died where he should have been a lot sooner in prison.

43:55I just want people to remember, behind the headlines are two young women

44:00who fell in with the wrong crowd as teenagers

44:05and met a man who was prepared to end their lives without a thought.

44:11Naylor was a callous killer who bottled all the hatred he had for women

44:24and distilled it into the most shocking violence.

44:28After managing to avoid a murder conviction for killing Deborah Kershaw,

44:33his lust for brutality wasn't curbed in prison.

44:37And when Naylor was released early, he couldn't help but kill again,

44:42squeezing the life out of 18-year-old Maureen Stepan,

44:46leaving no doubt that George Naylor will forever be remembered

44:51as one of Britain's most evil killers.

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