I was a nurse at Broadmoor Hospital… Ronnie Kray and the Yorkshire ripper were NOT my scariest patients – here’s who still gives me nightmares

You cannot imagine that Paul Deacon works in the most famous fame of mind in England and from his soft Cornish voice and cheerful attitude.

For ten years, Paul was a nurse at the Broadmoor Hospital, a high -security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, Crowthorne.

Paul, who is now sixties and retired, witnessed everything throughout his career – Popstars Martin and Gary Kemp paid a visit to Ronnie Kray, from being in the shift when he was stabbed in the eyes of Peter Sutcliffe.

After leaving the school without the qualifications, Paul said he was ‘a little rebellious’ and started to work in a shop in his hometown.

He died to witness a man collapsed and later died to die in his shift, he deeply shocked the young people – and decided to be a nurse on the advice of a consultant.

At the age of 18, Paul was thrown into the deep end of St Lawrence’s Psychiatry Hospital in Bodmin, Cornwall.

His task was to evaluate patients in the application ward with various mental health problems such as schizophrenia, severe depression, bipolar and eating disorders.

Paul is now negotiating about working time as a nurse in Broadmoor.

The high security exterior of Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire

The opportunity to work in Broadmoor Paul ‘Why not?’ he thought.

During his interview, he remembers how he was banned from looking around the hospital and that the nurses there called the dormitories as ‘cells’ instead of rooms and called patients ‘prisoners’.

In Broadmoor, Paul quickly went up the system.

The most famous prisoners: Charles Bonson, Ronnie Kray and Peter Sutcliffe were ‘Yorkshire Ripper’.

But these serial killers and mafia bosses ‘no uncomfortable’ were – they only created more work for nurses because other prisoners tried to attack them.

Paul was shift the day Peter Sutcliffe was stabbed in his eye by a patient.

Paul, “ “ stabbed on the day of stabbing in the doors of 200 female patients who hit the doors, ” he remembers Paul.

Ronnie Kray said that perhaps not surprisingly, the hospital was the ‘father figure’.

Kray continued to take business initiatives from prison – even trying to get staff, Paul Paul said.

Ronnie Kray was depicted with Reggie, a famous mafia duo of East London. Ronnie was sick in Broadmoor for 16 years and died there in 1995

Broadmoor Hospital Berkshire, Crowthorne and the oldest psychiatry hospital in the country

Paul has been a psychiatrist nurse at Broadmoor Hospital for more than a decade and encountered prisoners such as Peter Sutcliffe, Charles Bonson and Ronnie Kray

Paul remembers an example with about 30 nurses when he was on duty in the guest hall.

He noticed that everyone pointed to the door and started whispering in exciting tones. Paul turned to the door to look and walked Martin and Gary Kemp.

“ New films were doing research for The Krays.

“ You can make a confectionery from the chaos, so they ordered a few Shandies and a chocolate bar, and interviewed Ronnie, who left an invoice.

“ 150 £! Martin looked at him and said, “These two Sandies and a little expensive for a chocolate!” He said. Paul laughs.

‘Ronnie added a accusation for the interview.’

The malicious convicts made Broadmoor a home name as one of the oldest and highest security mental hospitals in the UK in the 1980s and 90s.

Paul works at ‘Miss’ Broadmoor and says he was afraid that he left a ‘big mistake’ in the days following his retirement

Paul Deacon’s psychiatric nurse, where he worked as a psychiatric nurse, nurses worked ‘parallel to security’

Broadmoor Hospital is the oldest of the UK’s three high -security psychiatry hospitals

But with a patient who did not make headlines, there was a encounter that aroused Paul in the middle of the night.

“ I was in a music lesson that controls a patient. I’ve worked with him before and we’ve usually good.

But he kept looking at me in a really funny way. It was creepy. I asked him what was wrong.

“Paul, the sounds are really bad today, they tell me to kill you,” he said.

“ Made me cool me. It made me realize that you could never complain about it. I still wake up early in the morning. ‘

‘He reminded me that I was never very comfortable with a patient or that I would disappoint my protector.’ ‘

Another time, Paul found himself locked in a cell alone with a patient.

Peter Sutcliffe, that is, ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ was one of Broadmoor’s most famous patients

Charles Bonson fled Broadmoor during his time there and held a protest on the roof of the hospital in 1985

Although he practiced for this scenario during the compulsory ‘pledge training’, Paul confesses that his colleagues are ‘full shock’ when he locked him with a patient with a patient who does not have a psychotic part.

“Everyone was trained, but this day went completely wrong,” Paul remembers.

“ You never mentioned the names of other personnel – if people had the same name, we had numbers to avoid any confusion.

“ The three of us were restricting one patient. I said the second number went out – and they both left.

The door was closed and the patient jumped; Now it was a hostage situation and I was full shock. ‘

However, despite these flash chapters of absolute terror, Paul sympathizes with his prisoners in Broadmoor for years.

‘Most young people have really bad role models – all abusive or terrible parents. They were fed daily. ‘

So he found shocking why some prisoners were trying to imitate mental illnesses to enter Broadmoor and avoid a normal prison sentence – Paul says Paul.

“ You have learned how to determine how to react to the view in the eyes of the scenes and the drug.

A man quickly noticed his mistake – played a role and caught.

“ But only after realizing that he could not leave and began to cry. ”

Paul explains: ‘You have a release date in prison, there is no such certainty in the hospital.

“ Broadmoor has a court. This is a collective decision. ‘

The best part of Paul’s work was to see that patients were treated.

It is reflected in a young actor in soaps. After going psychotic on the set and stabbing someone in the town, he entered the Broadmoor Hospital, where Paul helped him for ten years.

“ Now married to children. This is one of the best parts of the business – seeing people healed. I always believe that there is hope. ‘

However, witnessing some patients’ psychoses was the worst part of Paul.

“ When you breastfeed someone who is extremely psychotic, they may be very traumatic when they become good again and they may have the shock of realizing that they kill someone.

‘It is said that you have murdered all your family, one is so horrified, sometimes the most gentle thing to do is wondering if the psychosis will continue to treat the drug at a low level.’

Paul misses the comrade of the nursing team in Broadmoor, the excitement of working with new patients and establishing relationships with them.

But now the former nurse joins retirement by talking about the time he spends there and re -experiencing the highest levels and low levels.

Paul also lives on the board of the Royal Psychiatrists College and is currently writing a second book.