Serial killer Joanna Dennehy warned her prison fiancée she was a ‘fully committed psychopath’
Serial killer Joanna Dennehy has ‘no regrets’ about killing three men and told he prison fiancée she was a ‘fully committed psychopath’ in harrowing letter
Joanna Dennehy, 38, fell in love with robber Hayley Palmer in HMP Bronzefield Pair sent to separate prisons before Palmer was released after serving 16 years Dennehy, 39, was jailed in 2014 after murdering three men during a 10-day spreePalmer says killer had ‘no regrets’ and would ‘laugh’ recalling harrowing crimes
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Serial killer Joanna Dennehy told her prison fiancée she was a ‘fully committed psychopath’ in a harrowing love letter.
Dennehy, 39, who was jailed in 2014 after killing three men during a 10-day spree, was engaged street robber Hayley Palmer while they were both behind bars.
The pair both were incarcerated at the privately-run HMP Bronzefield in Middlesex, but they split after being moved to separate prisons.
Palmer, who is now a free woman after serving 16 years, has opened up about their romance with the killer, revealing Dennehy had ‘no regrets’ and would ‘laugh’ about her crimes.
In a letter seen by the The Sun on Sunday, Dennehy wrote: ‘You have a fully committed psychopath.
Joanna Dennehy, 37, (pictured) was jailed for life in 2014 after killing three men during a 10-day spree
Dennehy was reportedly engaged street robber Hayley Palmer (pictured), who has been released after serving 16 years
‘Together we will travel a path so beautifully dark, so mentally and physically dangerous we will cease to know where I begin and you end.’
Mother-of-two Dennehy is one of only two women in Britain serving a whole-life prison term – the other is Rose West.
She stabbed three men to death whose bodies she dumped in ditches outside Peterborough, where she lived before knifing two more men in Hereford.
Dennehy’s first victim was a Polish man, Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, who had come to believe Dennehy was his girlfriend.
She lured him to a property with suggestive texts, then stabbed him through the heart.
Dennehy then used a pocket knife to kill her housemate John Chapman, 56, stabbing him once in the neck.
Serial killer Dennehy is currently serving a full life sentence – one of only two women to be doing so in the country
The third victim was her landlord, Kevin Lee, 48, who she lured with the promise of sexual favours.
Excited by the police manhunt for her, she then stabbed Robin Bereza from behind in Hereford on April 2, 2013. Nine minutes later, she knifed John Rogers.
Both men survived and Dennehy was caught after two days on the run.
‘She laughed at the situation and had no regrets at all’, said Palmer.
Palmer met the killer at HMP Bronzefield but were later moved to separate prisons, with Palmer going to HMP East Sutton Park in Kent while Dennehy now resides in HMP Low Newton in Durham.
In May 2021, friends told the Mirror Palmer was seeking legal advice on arranging the wedding to Dennehy despite her life tariff for murdering three men.
‘It’s a very strange relationship. It’s very weird to say but they seem good for each other’, said the friend.
‘Hayley speaks about Joanna like she’s her high school sweetheart. They talk every single day and fully intend to get married.
‘Hayley joked that they would not be allowed to cut their wedding cake because there’s no way that they’d let Joanna have a knife.’
The couple reportedly wanted to be married by the end of the year – however Dennehy is said to have broken off contact with Palmer two months ago.
Dennehy, who was brought up in a stable family home in the Home Counties, carried out her horrific attacks to gratify her ‘sadistic love for blood’.
The Old Bailey was told the killer had a ‘sexual and sadistic motivation’.
Later she told a psychiatrist: ‘I killed to see how I would feel, to see if I was as cold as I thought I was. Then it got more -ish.’
Dennehy (pictured) told psychiatrists she killed ‘to see how it would feel’ and found it more-ish
Low Newton prison near Durham where the Joanna Dennehy is currently serving her sentence
Experts said Dennehy craved notoriety and wanted to humiliate her victims through sick sex games. Before the killings she had boasted she had already killed four times.
When the three bodies were found, police launched a high-profile murder investigation.
Meanwhile Dennehy travelled to Hereford and started scouring the streets with accomplice Gary Stretch for more men to kill.
She told him: ‘I want to have my fun.’
The pair randomly selected two dog walkers, retired fireman Robin Bereza, 64, and John Rogers, 56.
Dennehy stabbed them in frenzied knife attacks. Both survived the horrific attacks only because of swift medical intervention.
During her search for further victims, Dennehy posed for photos with a huge serrated knife and bragged that she and Stretch were ‘like Bonnie and Clyde’, whose gang killed nine policemen in 1930s America.
