Sunday People

OAP serial killer who murdered 100 women has baby with pen pal, 25

- By Geraldine Mckelvie

ONE of the world’s worst serial killers has fathered a baby with a pen pal 40 years his junior. snared in 2005 – after brazenly attending the funeral of one of his young victims.

Three years later he was convicted of 37 murders, though he reportedly boasted he’d killed scores more children and teenagers. When first convicted he is said to have begged for the death penalty.

But now he says: “I want to live for the love of my daughter and my wife.” His astonishin­g marriage is laid bare to UK audiences for the first time in an episode of a shocking new Netflix series, Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons.

The documentar­y is presented by journalist Raphael Rowe, who was freed after serving 12 years in a British jail for a murder following the quashing of his conviction by the Court of Appeal. Rowe says fiercely jealous Elena insisted an all-male crew visit the couple in the cosy apartment where they enjoy marathon sex sessions.

Criminals such as Tkach are usually held in cages but Ukrainian laws mean all married prisoners are allowed a threeday conjugal visit every two months.

Elena previously told Ukrainian media: “If I had to deal with his previous wives they wouldn’t be walking this earth any more. I wouldn’t let anyone within a mile of him. I’m a very jealous woman.

“I’m not scared by his conviction. Good women are scared of him. If that’s the case, there is less competitio­n for me.”

Rowe said: “She made it clear to me and my team we were not to bring another female to the interview for him to ogle and lust over. She dominated the conversati­on. It was strange. She seemed to relish the attention he gave her.”

In bizarre scenes, the couple snog in the prison flat which looks like any normal marital home. Tkach boasts: “Today we

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