Welsh serial killer ‘jokes about his crimes’ in ‘Monster Mansion’ prison

A serial killer who blamed his Friday The 13th-inspired fake boyfriend for his grisly murders reportedly jokes about his sick syndrome while behind bars. Former cinema owner Peter Moore is currently serving a life sentence at HMP Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The prison is called the Monster Mansion because of the high-profile psychopaths who languish there.

Prisoners say he was friends with ‘Dr Death’ Harold Shipman, who killed hundreds of his patients and regularly made jokes about attacking a couple, the Daily Star reports. Moore killed four men in cold blood in 1995 in a campaign of terror. across North Wales and Merseyside. He blamed the deaths of John Henry Roberts, Edward Carthy, Keith Randles and Anthony Davies on a boyfriend he named Jason, after the killer in the Friday the 13th horror films.

In a new book called Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion, authors Jonathan Levi and Dr Emma French lift the lid on the prison’s secrets after speaking to officers and former prisoners. They say Moore “makes a lot of jokes about his crimes,” including a terrifying attack on a couple he tied up. When the man begged him not to attack his wife, Moore said, “Sir, how dare you? I’m not here for her – I want you.”

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Other sadistic claims made by the sexual predator involved beheading one of his victims. Moore – who is believed to have been a respectable businessman by day – was nicknamed the Man in Black because of the dark leather clothing he wore as he stalked his prey at night.

He visited nightclubs or isolated places where gay men hung out for anonymous sex meetings to find potential victims for his frenzied attacks. During one of the murders, he wore a Nazi-style peaked cap, then took a swastika flag from a victim’s home as a trophy.

Moore told officers that killing people was a stress release, with the bank threatening to foreclose on several of his businesses at the time. A search of his home revealed various sadomasochistic paraphernalia and traces of blood on the walls. Asked how he felt about the deaths, he said: “I was pleased – I set out to do a job and it was a job well done. I did it for fun.”

Moore was jailed for life in 1996, with the recommendation that he never be released. He appealed the decision in 2011 but his appeal failed in 2012. He is now 77 and remains locked up in HMP Wakefield alongside April Jones’ killer Mark Bridger and Lost Prophets pedophile singer Ian Watkins.

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