I WILL KILL ROSE WEST
Expert reveals Dennehy’s plot
said things like that to me before, but this time I froze. I knew Jo was serious.”
Dennehy was sentenced at the Old Bailey in February 2014 for murdering three men in a 2013 killing spree. The mother-of-two, from St Albans, Herts, fatally stabbed Polish national Lukasz Slaboszewski after luring him to a property in Peterborough for sex. His body was dumped in a wheelie bin.
Her second victim was John Chapman, a 56-year-old Falklands veteran who lived at a bedsit in the same property as Dennehy. He was high on drink and drugs when she stabbed him more than 30 times. Afterwards she told her 7ft 3in accomplice Gary Stretch: “Oops, I’ve done it again.”
Later the same day Dennehy murdered her third victim, landlord and lover Kevin Lee, 48. Knifed in the neck and chest, Kevin’s body was discovered in a Cambridgeshire ditch wearing a black sequinned dress and arranged in a sexual pose.
Dennehy then randomly stabbed two dog walkers, Robin Bereza, 64, and John Rogers, 56, in Hereford. Miraculously, both men survived.
Sadistic Dennehy later told a psychiatrist she “killed to see if I was as cold as I thought I was. Then it got moreish”.
She has caused havoc in prison. She formed a lesbian relationship with an inmate but threatened to kill her when she discovered she had a girlfriend outside. Guards unearthed an escape plot which involved cutting off a female guard’s finger to activate locks. Ominously, Berry-Dee is convinced Dennehy will commit murder behind bars. He says: “No amount of prison psychiatry will ever remove the psychotic nature of Jo. She’s like a black widow spider, festering, waiting to pounce. “She will kill again – no doubt about that. I predict her next victim will be a prison guard stabbed to death.” Berry-Dee and Dennehy exchanged up to a dozen letters before meeting, which contain clues about her “devious, manipulative nature”. He says: “She can turn from a charming young woman to an absolute beast, that’s why she’s so dangerous.” In sharp contrast, Berry-Dee believes Rosemary West, whom he met at HMP Winchester, poses “zero threat”. He says: Without Fred I believe Rose would never have killed anyone. They were like a hand grenade and detonator - once they got together, bang.”
Berry-Dee believes Dennehy is being treated too well in prison and not being appropriately punished for her crimes.
He says: “Jo is a monster and should be taken out of prison, buried alive, dug up and a stake put through her heart.
“Then she should be buried again, dug up again and another stake put through her heart. It would probably take that to ensure she’s really dead.”
A spokesman for Sodexo, which operates HMP Bronzefield, said: “We do not comment on individual prisoners”.
TALKING with Female Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee is published by John Blake and priced £8.99.
SERIAL killer Joanna Dennehy threatened to kill Rose West minutes after arriving at the same prison as the House of Horrors murderer, a top criminologist and author has claimed.
Triple murderer Dennehy and West, convicted of killing 10 women with evil husband Fred, are the only two women in Britain serving whole life sentences.
Christopher Berry-Dee, who has interviewed both, says staff at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey took the threat so seriously West was taken to solitary confinement and then transferred her to another prison the next morning.
“Joanna Dennehy tried from the get-go to assert herself as top dog,” he says. “Between five and 20 minutes after first arriving at Bronzefield in 2014, she said she was going to kill Rose West.
“Dennehy quickly established herself as the shot-caller. She has guards and inmates at her beck and call.”
Berry-Dee, an ex-commando who has spent decades researching serial killers, has written a new book called Talking with Female Serial Killers. Oscarwinning film Monster was based on his interviews with Aileen Wuornos, played by Charlize Theron in the 2003 movie, who killed seven men in America.
He met Dennehy, 36, at HMP Bronzefield in July 2014 and was disturbed by her mask of charm which hid an ice cold, psychopathic nature.
Berry-Dee says: “Jo Dennehy was, without doubt, the most evil person I have ever met. She was streets ahead of Aileen Wuornos.
“When we met she had shaved hair and had put on a lot of weight since the time of her arrest. She was well-spoken and her voice was quiet and menacing.
“She was very intense, leaning forward on to the table so her face was around one foot from mine. Her eyes really penetrate and she doesn’t blink like the glare of a great white shark.
“I could smell evil coming off her – it’s a smell like no other so it’s impossible to describe but it’s acrid and dirty. When I’ve spoken to killers before, there’s a warmth, a trace of compassion. But with Jo, just pure evil.”
Berry-Dee, who teaches interview techniques, tried to bait Dennehy into explaining why she committed murder. But she blocked his every attempt, then threatened to kill him.
He says: “Murderers have
Jo’s eyes penetrate & she doesn’t blink. She’s like a great white shark CHRISTOPHER BERRYDEE ON JOANNA DENNEHY