The Grade-II listed building in Crowthorne, Berkshire, went up in flames this morning with the fire and rescue team called to the scene at 9.37am.
Broadmoor looks like a smoking wreck after a huge blaze broke out at the psychiatric hospital that caged some of the UK's most dangerous criminals - including the Yorkshire Ripper and Ronnie Kray.
No injuries have been reported and the fire service have confirmed the blaze has now been extinguished. Crews will remain at the scene to dampen down embers for some time. At this stage it is not clear what started the fire but an investigation will be carried out to determine the cause. Around 40 firefighters were on the site, with many expected to be there for 'some time' trying dampen down the embersBroadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne was in flames - sending plumes of black smoke into the sky
'There are no injuries reported at this time and all persons are accounted for. Crews are likely to remain on scene for some time while they deal with this incident.' A former manager claimed that politicians and civil servants thought the disgraced entertainer was the ‘bee’s knees’ and appointed him to a task force to run the hospital in 1988. He was allowed to personally select managers and even had his own living quarters on site.
Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, who killed 13 women and injured many more in the 1970s, was a patient at Broadmoor A few years ago, Broadmoor staff revealed what it's really like to work at the high-security psychiatric hospital treating the criminally insane in Channel 5 documentary Broadmoor: Serial Killers & High Security.
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