The Prison Shank Connoisseur | World’s Most Evil Prisoners | Forensic Files

[music playing] NARRATOR: In England, some of the world's most dangerous and violent prisoners are locked behind bars
in Category A prisons. It's like a jungle. You know, you've got all the killers,
all the front page crimers. You're going to see them all in the Category A's. NARRATOR: One of the most notorious is Gary Vinter.
He towers over. most people at 6 foot 7 and has a nasty temper. There's many like him in the Category A's.
But he's off the Richter scale. Somebody will die very soon. NARRATOR: He violently murdered two people.
He is a psychopath, brutally violent. And what terrified me the most is that he just didn't care.
He has no remorse for anything that he's done. I hate him. I want to go in that room and torture him.
NARRATOR: While in prison, Vinter stabbed a fellow inmate in the eye and gave another serious brain damage.
He's lost all hope. He doesn't care no more what happens to him. NARRATOR: Locked away for life with nothing to lose,
he's now a thug for hire. He's like a ticking time bomb. He could go off at any time.
NARRATOR: He is one of the most feared men in the English prison system. He split the end of the toilet brush, so it sharpened up.
Just had that plan to go in and kill the nonce bastard. NARRATOR: Long Lartin is one of the highest
security prisons in England. So all the [indistinct speech] is here, HMP Long Lartin,
housing some of the most dangerous and notorious prisons in the country. It's considered to be one of the most dangerous prisons
within the prison system. If you cross the paths with the wrong person on the wrong day, they're going to seriously hurt you.
I've seen a lot of people get seriously hurt in prison. It is a very dangerous and volatile place.
Most men on those landings in those Categories A's are either seriously violent or armed robbers,
murderers, men that have been on the front page of the newspapers. NARRATOR: And one of those is Gary Vinter.
Gary Vinter has now become something of a notorious prisoner in the British prison system.
He's very, very well-known, in part for being one of the said founders of a group of prisoners called Death Before Dishonor.
It depends who's got the biggest gang. If, like, there's five members of a gang now,
and one of their rivals turn up, those five will come sprinting on the yard now,
hack you and stab you to death. I can imagine something like Gary, 6 foot 7, first thing in the morning,
the door gets cracked open, and then Gary comes in. And then he's attacking you with a weapon.
NARRATOR: Over the last 26 years, Vinter has had regular run ins with his fellow prisoners,
including ex-armed robber Yammy B. His face was boiling. His hands were clenched.
I swear, I thought he was going to swing. He is an imposing presence, very intimidating, and has
lost the plot completely. He's quite a handsome guy. And when I think of some of the other criminals that I've seen,
he doesn't stand out as someone that you would expect to be a double murderer. NARRATOR: Vinter grew up in Middlesbrough in the Northeast
of England during the 1980s. The city's high crime rate makes it one of the most dangerous
cities in the United Kingdom. Being sent to prison was seen as a badge of honor for youngsters that grew up in the Northeast,
like ex-ex-criminal Ricky Killen. A lot of us in the area wanted to go to prison.
That was the mentality of us at that age. Everyone was drinking, taking drugs, fighting on a regular basis.
And it was just the norm in the area. And this is what a lot of the kids were seeing growing up.
And there was no one there to put them on the right path and deter them from going down a life of crime.
They were sort of glamorized. NARRATOR: The streets were rife with trouble. And it followed 26-year-old local thug Vinter everywhere.
Vinter's background is in some ways both remarkable and unremarkable. He starts off working as a railway signalman in Teesside.
NARRATOR: Even at work, Vinter was violent. In 1995, after a fight with a co-worker,
Vinter was then transferred from Teesside to Grangetown Railway Depot. One of his colleagues at the new job was 22-year-old Carl Edon.
They were working together, working as signalmen on the railway, working in a signal box, which
is quite a closed, confined environment where essentially they're responsible for rail passenger safety
and moving the signals. It's been suggested that they were friends and fairly close associates.
NARRATOR: Away from work, Carl had a long term girlfriend, Michelle. I fell in love with Carl straightaway.
It was a love at first sight. As soon as we first met, it was a bond. NARRATOR: Carl and Michelle had a two-year-old daughter
named Sophie and were expecting their second child. We looked for clothes and stuff,
had a look at all the baby stuff. My mom bought the pram for me. Yeah, very excited.
NARRATOR: The loved-up couple were also planning on getting married. I wanted a little white dress, the fairy tale one, not so big.
We didn't think about that much forward yet. But I wanted to get married in a church.
It's every girl's dream. NARRATOR: On Wednesday, August 2, 1995, at around 2:00 PM, Carl left home and headed to work.
We were all talking and planning the wedding, what we were going to do. I was really excited at becoming Mrs. Edon, Carl's wife.
NARRATOR: Later that evening, Michelle waited for Carl to come home. But then, there was a knock at the door.
It was the police. They come in the front room. They were just staring and staring at me.
And I was looking at them. And they was going silent. They said there's been an accident at work
with a colleague. Before they said anything, I knew something was serious. I just throw myself back and when they said it,
I just screamed, screamed the house down. NARRATOR: Carl had been viciously attacked
by colleague Gary Vinter. And then they told me he was dead. I just run outside, just run out.
I felt as though me insides was dying. Vinter stabbed Carl Edon 37 times. He punctured every single one of his organs.
So you've got to wonder what his mind state was at the time. He wasn't the sort of individual
that anyone would have sought out a violent confrontation with. But he did a really significant amount of damage
in what was quite a brutal, violent offense. They say Carl wouldn't have suffered.
But I don't believe it. Because there was blood marks. Carl was trying to crawl to the door.
It's suggested it was simply an argument, a falling out that gets out of hand. And this is very how many murders play out.
Carl used to say there was money going missing. I think Carl's walked in on something
and then Vinter caught him. One possibility would be that he felt so disrespected
and he was so enraged at the moment that he almost lost control in a frenzied, brutal attack.
I suppose another possibility is that he was gaining some sort of perverse pleasure
in the act itself. It's one thing that we'll never understand, why he did it. But it was brutal and it was awful.
I think what we see in Vinter is he's a man who does use violence as a solution to problems
and then learns to do it repeatedly. NARRATOR: Vinter handed himself in at a local police station.
Covered in blood, he was quickly charged with the murder of Carl Edon. There's no life for me, just been took away.
What am I going to do? I'm dying inside. I could feel myself dying, horrible feeling.
Carl, he was the love of my life. And even now, there's a big hole in my heart. Sorry.
Carlie, you were a spit of your dad. You're so much like him. Yeah, thank God we've got all these photos.
Everything-- [overlapping speech] Everything. Yeah. NARRATOR: On May 20, 1996, Vinter appeared
at Teesside Crown Court. The hearing provided little closure for Carl's fiancée and mother of his two
young children, Michelle. Vinter, he was just laughing at me. When I got called in the witness box
as a character witness for Carl, he was just looking at me and sniggering and stuff.
I hate him. I want to go in that room and torture him. I want to kill him myself.
I'm not bothered-- I'm not bothered how big he is. I want to go in there now and kill him.
NARRATOR: Vinter was sentenced to life on a 10-year minimum term, meaning, if he behaved well, he could be released.
He was sentenced to an indeterminate sentence. He could be kept in prison for the rest of his life.
However, when a minimum term is imposed, in Gary Vinter's case, 10 years, what that means is that
he cannot be released until 10 full years have elapsed. But once that 10 years has elapsed,
he is entitled for the parole board to consider whether he should in fact be released.
To be honest, 10 years is a low minimum term. So it would seem that Gary Vinter was treated quite leniently.
It wasn't justice at all. Because Carl wasn't here to live his life every day, where he still lives his.
NARRATOR: Vinter wasn't done killing. Once released, his next target would be a lot closer to home.
He attacked her. He strangled her and stabbed her to death. 26-year-old Gary Vinter had brutally
stabbed his work colleague, Carl Edon, to death . In 1996, he was behind bars. He starts off convicted of murder.
It was clearly a very, very violent, visceral attack. It said that every organ in his victim's body
was punctured with a stab wound. NARRATOR: Vinter was locked up in a high security prison
with some of the country's most dangerous criminals. Gary Vinter was doing a life sentence in the '90s when
I first set eyes on him. I went to go and look for this guy that I normally do drugs with or have dealings with.
There were two men in there, and a tall, tall man that I realized was Gary Vinter.
I didn't have to see him down the gym to know that he was physically supreme. He's really unusually tall.
There's not a lot of men that high. As I pushed open the door, everybody's jumped.
He had the tube in his mouth one used to chase the dragon, which is heroin on the foil.
And he turned around and looked at me, tutted. He said can't you knock on the door.
I said it's not your cell. And I looked at him. And he looks at me. I knew straight away that I wasn't going to like him.
First time I met Gary was in Long Lartin. In some ways, he's a complex character, quite volatile.
He can go off quite quickly. When he was in prison, people did say he was a model prisoner.
So I think he had an act that he could put on. But when you look at the crimes he's done,
he is a brutal psychopath. He's quite good at manipulating the system. You know, he knows that if he plays by the rules
and doesn't act out violently in prison, it's going to help his cause. You know, it might help towards an early release date,
or he might get more privileges whilst he's in prison. He used to move predominantly on his own.
He was very, very quiet. And you could quite clearly see he wasn't an idiot. He seemed like he knew the survival skills.
NARRATOR: In the two years leading up to his potential release, Vinter made a series of home visits
from prison. And this time, he started dating mom of four, Anne White. If a person forms a stable relationship while they're
serving their sentence, that definitely is capable of influencing the parole board,
without any shadow of a doubt. It's thought less likely that someone will go off the rails.
And what the parole board will look at is whether that is a person liable to have
a positive influence on the offender. NARRATOR: After serving the minimum 10-year term,
Vinter was let out on parole. If he committed a major offense while out, he risked being locked up again with no chance of release.
It's always a worry when these things happen. When people are released, it is very quick for murder.
NARRATOR: On release, Vinter's relationship with Anne White quickly developed. She was a mother of four.
And they hit it off. She clearly fell in love with him. NARRATOR: After dating for less than a
year, to the shock of the family, the couple got married. Anne White was aware of what he had done.
And her family were, as you would expect, very worried about what she was getting herself into.
Vinter was probably fairly charming on their first few interactions. So I think she had this idealized version of what
his personality was like. But then once she lived with him, his true colors started to come through.
There were very, very clear warning signs that that was not a good, healthy, or functioning
relationship Vinter learns that being difficult, being violent is the way that he gets what he wants.
If something upsets him, the way that he can deal with it, the way that he can cause a reaction
is to use violence. NARRATOR: The couple moved into Ann's Teesside home. But it wasn't long before Vinter's
bad temper got the better of him at a New Year's Eve party. At the Miners Arms in Eston, which
is a very close knit community in Teesside, all the locals will know of each other there,
and he got caught up in a pretty serious brutal brawl, which should have sent alarm bells ringing.
It just shows that nothing gets in his way and he's a very violent man. Anne was very worried after she saw his temper,
she saw his violence. And she became worried for her own safety. NARRATOR: Vinter was charged with threatening
unlawful violence. Back behind bars, Vinter reunited with some familiar faces, like Yammy B.
I wasn't frightened of him. I was carrying weapons at that stage, right? But I was thinking at that time, he's a lifer.
He might not want to get too violent. Because it could affect him getting out. NARRATOR: Yammy had scored some drugs
that Vinter had told him about. An hour later, as I was coming down the stairs, a little bit out of my nut kind of thing, buzzing.
And he walked straight up to me. "Why did you nick my graft off me?" I said "nick your graft off you?"
I said, "what do you mean?" He goes, "you know exactly what I mean." His face was boiling.
His hands were clenched. I swear I thought he was going to swing. "You're going red.
You look like you want to knock my head off." And then he looks left and he looks right.
And he saw two or three other guys kind of getting close. They was there to help me.
So he stomps round and marched off. From that day, really, it was never going to be good between me and him.
NARRATOR: After another year inside, Vinter was up for parole, much to Anne White's horror.
But despite her worries, he moved back in to her home. "He did mention that his wife was looking
at ending the relationship. He wasn't happy with that and didn't want it to end.
And I think that's when he started to be violent towards her. When Anne tried to distance herself from Vinter,
it's almost certain that this would have triggered something in him. It would have made him feel disrespected.
It would have enraged him. NARRATOR: One evening, the couple had a huge row. And Vinter smashed the TV in anger.
He packed a bag and stole Anne's passport to stop her fleeing the country. People like Vinter, who are perpetrators,
tend to want this power and control and dominance. And when they feel that they're not getting their way,
when their partner stands up to them, then they escalate their violence. NARRATOR: Anne White ended the relationship.
Gary Vinter, who had regularly been using steroids, took the rejection badly. He told me he got jealous over her.
And that was partly because of the 'roids. So he got angry. And he was saying he followed her around pubs
and stuff as well, started to get more volatile with her. NARRATOR: One evening, high on drugs and alcohol,
Vinter hunted Anne down. Anne was out with some friends, enjoying a night out. He then stalked her and kidnapped her and took
her back to his mother's house. He's clearly somebody who can't accept rejection.
He's somebody who's probably quite sensitive and quite paranoid, probably has quite a fragile ego.
Friends were worried and phoned her. And she said that she was OK, that she was fine.
They had rung the police as they were worried about what was going to happen. NARRATOR: The police called Anne.
Vinter forced her to say that she was fine. Just half an hour later, Anne was dead.
He attacked her. He strangled her and stabbed her to death in the kitchen. NARRATOR: Anne White had been stabbed
four times while Vinter's mother was asleep upstairs. [phone ringing] Good evening.
Which emergency service do you require? Police. Right. My name is Gary Vinter. I'm solely responsible for the death of my wife.
There's nobody else involved, just me. I killed my wife. That's all I'm prepared to say.
[sirens blaring] He comes out and does all that and does a most unbelievable thing and surrenders simply because you've
got nowhere to run to. NARRATOR: The police stormed the house. As a precaution, they used rubber bullets
to subdue Vinter. He was later charged with Anne White's murder. It was an horrific crime, horrific.
A lady there that tried to help him when he was released and was paid back by her life, taking her life.
So it was horrific, really, and for all her family. And that was somebody who showed him nothing but love.
He has killed two people out of prison. And he should never be allowed to be released.
NARRATOR: Vinter pleaded guilty to murder. And he was told he would spend the rest of his life
behind bars. He was now a man with nothing to lose. He's lost all hope. He doesn't care no more what happens to him.
He's on a final stand. And he's joining all different teams to get his payment. He's taking out contracts and hits from all sides.
NARRATOR: In 2008, 38-year-old Gary Vinter became a double murderer after strangling and stabbing
his wife multiple times. Killing two people in such a close knit community is going to rock the area.
People were devastated and angry that this man had been released from prison and was able to carry out
a second murder. NARRATOR: Vinter pleaded guilty to Anne's murder, but didn't seem to be sorry for what he had done.
Vinter's behavior in the courtroom is horrible. It's nasty. It's very vindictive.
He didn't show a lot of remorse for killing Anne White. He taunted her family a lot.
And he wouldn't say why he did it. Anne's family were very much against the relationship
between her and Vinter for good reason. So I wonder whether he knew about this and he was using this as an opportunity
to hurt their feelings, to jab out against them. Or maybe he had so much disdain for Anne as a person
that he just projected that onto her family. I can understand why Anne's mother has so much hatred.
And the fact that he had already killed once and was let out to kill her daughter, it will be some comfort that he
will never be out of prison. But I think they won't be happy until he's dead. NARRATOR: The judge recommended that Vinter
be kept behind bars for life. I thought he'd care a little bit about it. And he was saying he felt bad.
But I didn't really see the emotion in his face or, you know, there was no remorse there in his voice.
NARRATOR: Vinter was back in prison in Long Lartin, this time with no hope of being released.
It's during this second phase of life imprisonment that Vinter becomes the really difficult,
damaged, troubling prisoner that he's known as today. There's more thorns in prison to arrive at.
They've got razor wire, large fences, built in the wall, housing 460 prisoners in the prison on various wings, VP
wings, vulnerable prisoner wings, and mainstream wings, and most mainstream notorious prisoners in it.
The atmosphere in prison is very volatile. Like, you've got to be careful of how you present yourself.
One wrong move and you're going to land yourself in deep trouble. Look at someone the wrong way or just sit and snigger
at someone, catch them on bad day, then you're going to be bang in trouble if you can't stick up for yourself.
Prison is a truly dangerous place for the simple fact you could lose your life in there.
NARRATOR: Prisoners who harm women or children are at high risk of retribution. But top dog Gary Vinter was feared by most of his peers.
If he'd have been 5 foot 7 and 10 stone wet through, I would imagine somebody would try to have done something
to him because of his offense. I would say he was a bit more aggressive in his attitude.
I think he'd built up that air of domination, really, amongst some other prisoners as well.
So they'd have that fear whenever they were near him. You could see that. He had the edge now with him, all the prisoners.
NARRATOR: Seen as wielding too much power at Long Lartin, Vinter was transferred to HMP Franklin.
At that time, Ricky Killen was also locked up there. The type of people that end up in Franklin
are the worst of the worst. You've got serial killers, terrorists, murderers, armed robbers.
When I first landed there, it had inscribed on the wall "Welcome To Hell." The second day I was there, I seen a terrorist
get hot oil in the kitchen. I was in the kitchen because you can cook your own food there.
And I watched some lad come in, pick the pot of hot oil up, and just tip it over the terrorist's head.
And then I just seen his skin peeling off the back of his head. I first met Gary Vinter in 2008.
And I'd been there about a year. And Gary came onto the same wing as me. I'm quite a big bloke.
And he's a lot bigger than me, so he's quite intimidating to look at. He started thinking that people had
to bow down to him because of the sentence that he was doing. He wanted to feel as if he was in control.
When you come across someone who is doing life without parole, you sort of just keep out of their way.
Because obviously, they've got nothing to lose. NARRATOR: Vinter had shown so much
aggression to other inmates that he was moved to solitary confinement. They've got a segregation unit where
any prisoners that might be housed down there for their own safety. You've also got ones that are down there on GOAD, good order
and discipline. So they're the ones who have done attacks on other prisoners. I'd got into a madness on the wing.
And I ended up down in segregation. So exercise in the morning, I came out on the yard.
I was in a cage by myself, me, seeing who was in the next cage, Gary Vinter. NARRATOR: Because of their previous run-ins,
Yammy B was still wary of Vinter. When you're down to segregation, there's only certain people that you can talk to.
And it was only me and him on the yard. Now I called him Winter. He said, "my name is Vinter, mate."
I said. "yeah." I said, "you're right." I go, "did you do the same sentence?" He said, "no, I'm doing another sentence."
I goes, "what for?" "Murder." He just stomps off and walks around the yard. But he looked different, too, when
I saw him, from the first time. His eyes looked a bit stary. He didn't look too well to me.
Didn't want to be in his presence. This time round, when I saw him, I would say that I feared him.
NARRATOR: Vinter had become a heavy drug taker. But it was an expensive hobby. When you take drugs in prison, you get in debt.
Then, obviously, you're going to get yourself in a lot of trouble by the lads that are selling the drugs.
NARRATOR: Word on the prison wings was that Vinter's motive for violence was not always personal.
I think because it was natural life, never getting out, he was quite primed for somebody to target, to use,
to go and do the dirty work for him. So if somebody had a problem with somebody on the wing,
Gary would do the hit on him. To see him around other inmates and to see that they don't really want to say hello
to him, they don't really want to talk to him, that the only conversation that they will have with him
is if they need him to do a hit and a contract. So he's been, I know of, at least six or seven hits
that he's done. So that was in the space of what, 18 months? So what else has happened since then then, then?
The size of him, just if you bumped in him would cause some damage. Gary Vinter's joined all the gangs,
all for the name of drugs. He's a completely different man to when he served the early life sentence.
NARRATOR: To Vinter, everyone was fair game. Even prison officers were at risk. They must have been going to give Vinter
his breakfast in the morning. And he must have gone off. So he's hurt a couple of screws off him.
And then I could hear them marching about a half hour later. So you could see them all getting
their kit on, the helmets with the shields, and all that kind of stuff. And they're marching towards his cell.
And then bang, you could hear the door being removed. And the rushing and the rustle of the shields and all that.
Vinter, that morning, I could see it was going on for ages. So whatever was happening in there,
he was having a terrible go. NARRATOR: After causing so much trouble, Vinter was transferred again, this time to HMP Wakefield.
Wakefield Prison is known as Monster Mansion because it houses some of the worst criminals in the UK.
So he's very much a part of the furniture there. NARRATOR: Vinter was locked away in the isolation unit.
He wasn't happy about being separated from all the action and the drugs. He had been complaining to prison officers
that he didn't like his conditions. He wanted out. He wanted something better. And he threatened to kill a lifer
unless his conditions changed. But the difference with Gary and a lot of other prisoners,
if he made the threat, you'd have to take it seriously. Because he will carry it out.
NARRATOR: Vinter set his sights on a high profile target, one that would get lots of attention.
Roy Whiting is in prison for killing Sarah Payne, a little schoolgirl. And that was the case that shocked the entire nation.
It was an awful, awful killing of such a gorgeous little girl. NARRATOR: Roy Whiting, a convicted murderer and sex
offender, was nine years into a 40-year sentence for the crime. And with Whiting on the same wing, Vinter had a target.
He told me he split the end of the toilet brush so it's sharpened up. We used to sharpen it down into a point.
And that would be used as a weapon. When people are trying to hurt someone in prison,
they want to inflict the most serious harm on them. So when they're using these weapons, they go for the eyes.
Because that's going to cause the most damage, or for the neck, to try and inflict as much
damage as possible. He said that his plan, to go in there and kill the nonce bastard.
Gary Vinter saw an opening. He saw Roy Whiting in his cell. The door was ajar. NARRATOR: Gary Vinter was locked up
in one of the UK's most notorious prisons, HMP Wakefield, also known as Monster Mansion.
Vinter wasn't happy and planned to attack child killer Roy Whiting in order to get himself moved.
In July 2011, Vinter saw Whiting's cell door was open and decided this was his moment.
He went in with his tool that he made himself and stabbed him in both of his eyes.
Roy Whiting fell to the ground. And he beat him. He kicked him, punched him, very nearly killed him.
When he put it in his eye, the actual toilet brush broke in his socket. He said it snapped.
He couldn't do the damage then with the toilet brush after, to stab him off. So he just started beating him up, kicking
him, kicking him in the head. But he said he got tired as he was trying to kill him.
So it's very possible that Vinter did this because, in his own warped sense of morality
and mixed in with an inferiority complex, he sees himself as superior. He sees himself as better.
NARRATOR: Roy Whiting was hospitalized, but made a full recovery. Vinter was charged with wounding with intent
and the case was heard at Newcastle Crown Court. Once in the dock, Vinter made no apologies for his actions.
It was a really strange, bizarre court case. Because he is so dangerous and he is in confinement in prison,
it was done via video link. He was smiling pretty much the whole time. NARRATOR: Vinter pleaded guilty and was
given an indefinite sentence. His lawyer said he is pleased with what he'd done.
He got satisfaction out of attacking Roy Whiting. And he wanted to kill him. I remember Vinter interrupting the court hearing
to say that he stabbed him because he thought he was a dirty little nonce. When he said those words in court, he seemed happy.
He seemed satisfied with what he'd done. He said to the judge, "thanks, judge. It's been a pleasure."
He liked the attention. And I remember thinking he will do that again. NARRATOR: In May 2014, Vinter was
transferred to HMP Woodhill. In this jail, Vinter was no longer at the top of the hierarchy.
It's traditionally held some of the most notorious inmates, the likes of Charles Bronson, for example, who are held
in a closed supervision center in Woodhill, which is a kind of intense unit that's heavily,
heavily staffed by experienced prison officers, that deals with the most difficult, dangerous,
and damaged prisoners. I heard he got into an altercation with the Muslims. And he'd then become a target himself.
The best way of survival would be to join the Muslim gangs. Because no longer did the old villain
have the say on the wing when there was trouble. Or I would sort it out this way.
We'd sort it out the proper way. Now it was the head of the Muslim gangs who would have the final say.
And the rule is, inside the Category A's, that Muslims are not allowed to fight their fellow Muslims.
So he converted to Islam to be one of them, to protect himself. NARRATOR: Rehabilitation is offered to all inmates,
but was off the cards for Gary Vinter. He had no interest in reform and had passed the point of no return.
There would have been rehabilitation services for alcohol and drug problems. But of course, the individual has to want to engage.
And if they don't have that drive, that insight, then it doesn't matter what's out there.
The whole system is not going to help them. The norm is to continue to behave in exactly the same way
that people have previously. The greatest predictor of future behavior is what people have done in the past.
NARRATOR: Vinter is no exception. He continues to be aggressive and makes threats if he is
not moved back to Long Lartin. The kind of violence Vinter's prepared to do is extreme, extreme, extreme violence.
Prisoners have very little to bargain with. One way that they can get what they want, and they
have long known this, is to use the threat of coercion and violence. NARRATOR: Vinter's ultimatums were not enough to get him
what he wanted. So he does what he knows best. Vinter's next attack is on a prisoner
by the name of Lee Newell, who himself is convicted of the murder of another prisoner, a sex offender,
while in prison custody. NARRATOR: Lee Newell was first jailed for strangling a 56-year-old neighbor, Mary Neil, to death.
Vinter had him in his sights. They're left together on an exercise yard. And Vinter, who stands at 6 foot 7 and 200 pounds of muscle,
manages to knock Newell down and jump up and down on his head in what's been described by some staff that bore witness
to it as one of the worst acts of prison violence that they'd ever witnessed. It took him only 27 seconds to brutally attack him.
They had a beef before somewhere. And Vinter got the chance to do him and absolutely maimed him.
NARRATOR: Newell suffered a fractured skull, a severe brain injury, and was left blind in one eye.
Gary Vinter clearly has no boundaries. Anything is doable for him. When you look at the killings and the attacks that he's done,
nothing stops him and clearly he wants them to end in fatalities. His violence is not reactive.
It seems very cold and calculated. He seems quite instrumental in his nature. It feels like he views Newell as not even a human.
He's just an object, a hurdle, a means to an end. Vinter is without doubt the worst
criminal I have ever covered in my time of crime reporting. He is a psychopath, brutally violent.
And what terrified me the most is that he just didn't care. He has no remorse for anything that he's done.
NARRATOR: Following the attack, Vinter was not returned to Long Lartin. , Instead he was sent to a notoriously
tough and overcrowded prison, HMP Belmarsh. Some of the most disorderly prisons are the most overcrowded.
Because prison overcrowding creates added frustration, competition for resources, more tension, very often
more frustration, anger, annoyance, more demand on staff. NARRATOR: In 2018, contrary to his Muslim conversion,
Vinter started an Islamophobic gang called Death Before Dishonor. There were numerous attacks that
are perpetrated by that group on other prisoners. Particularly some of the close supervision centers become very
difficult and tense places. He's like a ticking time bomb. He could go off at any time.
But also, he's at risk of being attacked as well. NARRATOR: Vinter will remain behind bars
in a maximum security prison for the rest of his life with no option of parole. He is at the top of the food chain
and feared by the most dangerous of prisoners. One person who does not fear him is the partner
of his first victim, Michelle. He's a monster. He's evil. Should be that Vinter's in there, not him.
I've got two girls. It's them two that's keeping me going. But if it wasn't for them girls, I'd have no one, nothing.
It's them that's kept me going all these years. Me and the girls really miss him deeply.
Always loved and forever gone, but never forgotten. Gary Vinter should never, ever be allowed out of prison.
He is a dangerous psychopath who would kill anyone in his sights. He has no boundaries.
He likes the attention. And he has said many times he has nothing to lose. Somebody will die very soon, possibly him.

While incarcerated for double homicide, Gary Vinter stabs a fellow inmate in the eye and injures another so severely that it causes permanent brain damage. Whether you’re out on the streets or locked up behind bars, no one is safe from the wrath of Gary Vinter. World’s Most Evil Prisoners is a chilling exploration of the terrifying offenders sentenced to a lifetime behind bars. Locked away, yet still driven by their twisted desires, these inmates delve into acts of torture, abduction, and homicide. Prepare to confront the criminals from the darkest facets of humanity.

Brief Summary

Gary Vinter, a violent psychopath, murdered two people and continues to pose a threat in prison.

Key points

Michelle's Heartbreak. Michelle describes the devastating moment she learned of Carl's death.
The Brutal Murder of Carl Edon. Gary Vinter brutally murdered his colleague Carl Edon, stabbing him 37 times.
Vinter's Release and Second Murder. After serving a minimum term, Vinter killed again, this time his wife Anne White.
Attack on Roy Whiting. Vinter brutally attacks child killer Roy Whiting in a calculated prison assault.
Gary Vinter's Reign of Terror. Vinter's violent behavior escalates in prison, leading to multiple attacks on inmates.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I want to go in that room and torture him.

Michelle's emotional response to Gary Vinter.

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Tension

85/ 100High tension

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