"and a title card tribute was shown at the end. Leslie Grantham Leslie Michael Grantham (30 April 1947 – 15 June 2018) was a British actor, best known for his role as ""Dirty"" Den Watts in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". He was a convicted murderer, having served 10 years for the killing of a West German taxi driver, and had significant press coverage resulting from an online sex scandal in 2004. Grantham was born in Camberwell, London, the son of Adelaide (""née"" Flinders) and Walter William Grantham (1915–1998). He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers regiment of the British Army"
"sentenced to six years' imprisonment; despite his plea he continued to assert his innocence. While in prison, Smith became involved in amateur dramatics where he met and encouraged Leslie Grantham to pursue his career as a professional. After his release, Grantham was to later star in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". On release from Leyhill Open Prison in 1977 Smith attempted to rebuild a political career, but was initially refused re-admission to the Labour Party. He worked for the Howard League for Penal Reform and campaigned for the rights of released prisoners, and occasionally commented on municipal housing issues. In"
"also known for his roles in the TV series ""Not the Nine O'Clock News"", ""Help"", ""Kiss Me Kate"", and as the gatehouse guard in ""Chelmsford 123"". In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for ""The Thick of It"" and ""Help"". On 2 August 2007, Langham was found guilty of 15 charges of downloading and possessing level 5 child pornography. Langham was jailed for ten months, reduced to six on appeal. He was made to sign the sex offenders' register, and banned from working with children for 10 years. The son of theatre director Michael Langham and actress Helen Burns, Langham read"
"his West End dressing room, his car and his home. The victim claimed this had started when she was 14 years old. Langham denied the charges and the jury accepted his account that he only had sex with her when she was 18, clearing him of six counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery between January 1996 and April 2000. On 2 August 2007, Langham was found guilty on charges of possessing child pornography. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and was placed on the sexual offenders register for 10 years. Before sentencing, the judge said"
"Lewisham police station. (The name does not directly refer to the village of Minstead, Hampshire; rather it was chosen from an alphabetical list of English villages, the method of operational naming in use at the time). As of 2009, the operation was the largest and most complex rape investigation ever undertaken by the Metropolitan Police. On 24 March 2011, the Jamaican-born Grant was found guilty on all counts. The following day he was given four life sentences and ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison. Grant is an accomplished burglar and has broken into the homes of"
"Gorham. The U.S. Parole Commission issued an arrest warrant for Gorham on Oct. 17, regarding the subject’s original conviction of sodomy, kidnapping and assault with the intent to commit sodomy. Gorham was convicted and sentenced to 35 years on these charges. Gorham was arrested for being drunk in public and for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female at a Chantilly High School football game. The USMS and task force partners from the Diplomatic Security Service located Gorham at his residence on Church Lane in Bowie, MD. The subject was arrested without incident and turned over to the U.S. District Court in"
"revealed in the ITV television documentary ""Real Crime: The 30 Year Secret"", Castree was convicted in 1976 of gross indecency and indecent assault against a nine-year-old girl in Rochdale. He was fined £25 (). In May 2018, the crime and the convictions were covered in a 2-part series by Casefile True Crime Podcast. Murder of Lesley Molseed The murder of Lesley Molseed, an 11-year-old British girl, occurred on 5 October 1975 in West Yorkshire, England. Stefan Kiszko, an intellectually disabled man who lived near Molseed in Greater Manchester, was wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering her, and served 16"
"part. However, shortly afterwards Grantham contacted Smith and asked to speak to her urgently. He revealed that he had been found guilty of killing a German taxi driver while on army service in 1967, and spent 10 years in prison. Although there were fears that if this story got out, the resultant publicity would do enormous damage to the programme and the BBC, Smith decided not to withdraw Grantham from the role. In her opinion, he had paid the full penalty that society requires for a mistake committed in his past and it was a ""Christian duty to forgive"". The"
"to get more involved in acting professionally by the convicted former Labour Party politician T. Dan Smith, who was also an inmate at Leyhill in the mid-1970s. He also met actress Louise Jameson during her visit to Leyhill in the mid-1970s; she had also encouraged him to take up acting and he became good friends with her. On release from prison, Grantham decided to pursue an acting career and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. His theatre work included a role in a play at the Battersea Free Theatre written by television director Matthew Robinson. In 1982"
"in 1998. He was found guilty in January 2002 of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991, and was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison. The trial included testimony from the victim; from a psychiatrist, Dr. Edward Messner, who treated Geoghan for his sexual fantasies about children from 1994 to 1996; and from Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, who testified that he banned Geoghan from the swimming club after a complaint that he had been proselytizing and had had prurient conversations"
"to the task."" Leslie, My Name Is Evil Leslie, My Name Is Evil is a 2009 Canadian film written and directed by Reginald Harkema. It was renamed ""Manson, My Name is Evil"" after its initial release. Leslie is a troubled 1960s teenager who eventually becomes a follower of Charles Manson and is charged, convicted, and sentenced to death in August 1969 for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. The story revolves around how a young juror, Perry, becomes infatuated with Leslie during her trial. After the film was renamed, Twitch Film criticized the film's marketing as deceptive, as it"
"10 years in prison. He was a prosecution witness against former associates, Gotti and Charles Carneglia. Born on September 30, 1962 in Queens, New York City, Alite, the grandson of Albanian immigrants from Gjirokastër in Albania grew up in Woodhaven, Queens and briefly attended the University of Tampa on a baseball scholarship and played on the university team, The Spartans but left after one semester following an injury. He testified in court that he was introduced to organized crime when an uncle took him to a gambling den in The Bronx and was accompanied by a made man in the"
"his experiences to co-write the BBC2 series ""Help"", in which he portrayed a psychotherapist, with friend Paul Whitehouse; and played a counsellor in sitcom ""Kiss Me Kate."" Despite his conviction and imprisonment for possession of child pornography (see next section), his marriage to Cartwright survived, and his wife and children continued to live with him in the family home in Cranbrook, Kent after his release. Likewise his three sons from his first marriage also stood by him. On 29 November 2005, Langham was arrested by Kent Police in connection with Operation Ore, a British police operation into credit card customers"
"immature personality."" At the Gainesville State School, Clark was able to complete his GED and was released at the age of 18 to find his mother had abandoned him, wanting nothing more to do with him. In 1989 Clark was convicted of a felony – the burglary of a building – and incarcerated in state prison. In 1991 he pleaded guilty to theft by a check and was confined to the county jail for 20 days, fined, and ordered to pay restitution. In 1992 he was convicted of burglary and received a 10-year sentence in prison, which is where he"
"wrapped in a blanket through the rear window of the vehicle. The man, freed from his restraints, was a 20-year old Hungarian named Palázs Falvay. He explained that he'd been hitchhiking the night before in Chalon-sur-Saône and Chanal had picked him up. He accused Chanal of having kidnapped and raped him. During the processing of the vehicle, the police found sex toys and a camera with images that included the scenes described by the hitchhiker. On 23 October 1990, the Saône-et-Loire Assize Court condemned Pierre Chanal to 10 years in prison. He was taken to the prison in Dijon, where"
"lenient, and ordered that it be extended. In October 2012, he was re-sentenced to 37 years' imprisonment. He is serving time at ADX Florence in Colorado. The eldest of seven children, Ressam was born in 1967 and grew up in a town west of Algiers; he graduated from high school in 1988. In 1984, Ressam traveled to Paris, France, for special medical treatments; it was his first time out of Algeria. Ressam failed the exams to college and applied for jobs with police or security forces but was turned down. Over the next four years he worked with his father"
"career in six parishes, Geoghan was accused of sexual abuse involving more than 130 boys. He was prosecuted in Cambridge, Massachusetts for charges of molestation that took place in 1991. Geoghan was defrocked in 1998 by Pope John Paul II. He was found guilty in January 2002 of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991, and was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison. After initially agreeing to a $30 million settlement with 86 of Geoghan's victims, the Boston archdiocese pulled"
"career, Landham was an actor in pornographic films. He then became a mainstream movie actor and appeared in a number of Hollywood films, including ""The Warriors"" (as a subway policeman whose leg gets broken by a baseball bat-wielding Michael Beck), ""Predator"", ""48 Hrs."", ""Lock Up"" and ""Action Jackson"". In 2003, Landham ran in the Republican Party primary election for the post of Governor of Kentucky, hoping to repeat the success of his ""Predator"" castmates Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He based his candidacy on opposition to an amendment which endorsed the Kentucky Family Court, saying his"
"on the rails. He often traveled via train cars; he later claimed that on one train he was gang raped by a group of hobos. In 1907, at the age of 15, after getting drunk in a saloon in Montana, Panzram enlisted in the U.S. Army. Shortly thereafter he was convicted of larceny and served a prison sentence from 1908 to 1910 at Fort Leavenworth's United States Disciplinary Barracks. Then-Secretary of War William Howard Taft approved the sentence. Panzram later claimed that any goodness left in him was smashed out during his Leavenworth imprisonment. After his release and dishonorable discharge,"
"Leslie, My Name Is Evil Leslie, My Name Is Evil is a 2009 Canadian film written and directed by Reginald Harkema. It was renamed ""Manson, My Name is Evil"" after its initial release. Leslie is a troubled 1960s teenager who eventually becomes a follower of Charles Manson and is charged, convicted, and sentenced to death in August 1969 for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. The story revolves around how a young juror, Perry, becomes infatuated with Leslie during her trial. After the film was renamed, Twitch Film criticized the film's marketing as deceptive, as it emphasized Manson instead"
"pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and embezzlement. On May 20, 2009, he was found guilty of these charges and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. McLaughlin was born in Inwood, Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Queens. His family moved to Brentwood, Long Island, when he was 10. His paternal grandfather, Miles McLaughlin, an electrician, was an immigrant from County Cavan, Ireland. McLaughlin's father was also an electrician, who worked for years as chief electrician at ""The New York Times"". His mother held jobs at General Motors and Gertz department stores. None of his family went to college. Both"
"count each of kidnapping, sodomy by force in concert, rape in concert, forcible oral copulation, and forcible rape with a sentencing enhancement for committing rape while armed with a firearm. He was sentenced Jan. 28, 2011, to 17 years and four months in state prison. On September 19, 2011, Son was sentenced to 7 years to life. In October 2011, Son was accused of killing his cellmate, Michael Thomas Graham, a convicted sex offender. The murder happened on October 10, 2011, on ""B"" Yard Reception, building 5 at Wasco State Prison. The beating occurred at 5:25 PM and Graham died"
"watching the pre-game show on television. Ingram subsequently had two years added to his sentence. He was held at the Federal Correctional Institution, Yazoo City, a low-security facility in Mississippi, and was released in 2015. On May 13, 2014, local media outlets reported that 46-year-old James Lewis, a former correctional officer at FCI Ashland, had been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Lewis had pleaded guilty to conspiring with inmate Gary Musick and Musick's girlfriend, Cindy Gates, to bring marijuana and nude photographs into the prison between December 2010 and February 2012. Musick was convicted of conspiracy while Gates"
"his parents they would be dead forever."" In December 2007, 17-year-old Lamar Roberts and his 16-year-old girlfriend, Heather Trujillo, were accused of beating a 7-year-old girl to death. They were said to have been imitating the content of ""Mortal Kombat"". In July 2008, Heather was sentenced to 18 years in prison and 6 years in a youth-offender program, and, on January 16, 2009, Lamar was sentenced to 36 years in prison. In June 2008, four teens allegedly obsessed with ""Grand Theft Auto IV"" went on a crime spree after being in New Hyde Park, New York. They first robbed a"
"throughout his entire upbringing, particularly from the police. After leaving school at 15, he took a series of low-paying jobs and in 1976 began breaking into houses. The following year he was convicted of nine counts of burglary and sent to borstal for a few months, and in 1979 he was sentenced to six months for wounding. In September 1980 he stood trial for the murder of 19-year-old Lennie McIntosh, a postal worker, who was stabbed and killed at a party in Muswell Hill in 1979. The first trial resulted in a hung jury; a second trial saw him acquitted."
"19-year-old repeat offenders of crimes ranging from petty theft and public intoxication to gambling, counterfeiting, and racketeering. None of the ""graduates"" of the original documentary have since been convicted of a felony except for Angelo Speziale, who in 2010 was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the rape and murder of his neighbor in 1982 (after the film was made). Most were from the tri-state (Connecticut, New Jersey and New York) area and agreed to accept the experiment in lieu of jail time and/or probation/public service. The producers asked for a range of youth that came from"
"parents home in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Blum confessed to driving the getaway car, and named the other members of the gang, including Luke Elliott Sommer. On December 15, 2008 Sommer was sentenced to 24 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Commit Armed Bank Robbery, Armed Bank Robbery, Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, and Possession of an Unregistered Destructive Device (Hand Grenade). Sommer is also facing several firearm related charges in the Saanich area of BC, Canada, involving the possession and concealment of a small handgun. Sommer was"
"21 days imprisonment for the theft of a 'fly front grey Melton cloth overcoat'. Although given the names 'Joseph Leslie Theodore' by his parents, Taylor preferred to use the name 'Leslie'. As a youth, Taylor became known by the nickname 'Squizzy' because of an ulcerated, droopy left eyelid. His first prison sentence behind him, Taylor became part of a larrikin 'push' (or gang) that roamed the streets looking for trouble. His early convictions included theft, assault, inciting to resist arrest, offensive language, throwing missiles and vagrancy. Under the alias ""Michael McGee"", he was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment"
"made millions of dollars as the owner of car dealerships, was serving a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to bankruptcy fraud in 2010. The reporter, Esme Murphy, described the interview: He was dressed in surplus army fatigues from the 1960s, the uniform of all inmates. He described a life that to some might not sound so bad. He works out every day with weights in a fully equipped prison gym. He says the food is good. There is a salad bar and at times fresh cinnamon rolls for breakfast. There is a prison movie theater he can go to. The"
"Den Watts Den Watts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by actor Leslie Grantham. He became well known for his tabloid nickname, ""Dirty Den"". Den is the original landlord of The Queen Victoria. He has a stormy love-hate relationship with his alcoholic first wife Angie Watts (Anita Dobson). After nearly 19 years of marriage, he hands divorce papers to her in the 1986 Christmas Day episode that was watched by a record-breaking 30.15million viewers, more than half of the UK population at the time. He is also involved with the criminal gang known as The"
"fairground in Wokingham, Berkshire, England. In 1990, it emerged that on the night he disappeared, Tildesley had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang, led by Sidney Cooke. Another man named Leslie Bailey was charged with murder in 1991 and the following year was given two life sentences. Bailey was murdered in prison by other inmates shortly afterwards. The case remains officially unsolved despite being featured heavily in the national press and on BBC TV's ""Crimewatch"". In 1988, Helen McCourt, a 22-year-old insurance clerk from Lancashire disappeared. Ian Simms, a local pub landlord, was subsequently"
"was 17 years old Smith began to live with his aunt Evelyn Harris in Dayton and in 1968 he married, but his wife Laura later left him and as a result he became despondent and stopped caring for anything. He was arrested repeatedly for drunkenness, armed robbery, auto theft, and attempted breaking and entering, and in 1970 was sentenced to one to ten years at the Mansfield Reformatory after pleading guilty to first degree manslaughter for the killing of a man during a shootout at a Dayton bar. During his time in prison two psychiatrists who had examined him found"
"after his release. On 28 March 2007, ""The Sun"" began publishing transcripts of Huntley's taped confession. In April 2007, Huntley confessed to having sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl after dragging her into an orchard in 1997. His victim won the right to damages against Huntley. He was believed to be insolvent so was unlikely to pay any damages, but she claimed to feel ""a massive sense of relief"" at his confession. This followed repeated denials by Huntley that there had been a sexual element in the Soham murders, which the sentencing judge described as likely but not proven, and that"