Hospital where Britain's most evil serial killers are held has a catalogue of DVDs with scenes of brutal violence and kinky sex

A top-security psychiatric hospital where Britain’s most evil serial killers contains hundreds of graphic movies showing sickening violence and kinky sex scenes, it can be revealed today.
Broadmoor Hospital - which houses the Yorkshire Ripper and cannibal killer Peter Bryan - has a catalogue of more than 200 DVDs, including films showing twisted scenes of murder and sex attacks.
The revelation was today branded 'astounding' by a leading psychologist as the NHS Trust which runs the hospital defended the policy, claiming the films prepared patients for the outside world.

Sam Neill in The Piano, during a scene in which he mutilates a young woman. It is one of the films held in Broadmoor, a top-security psychiatric hospital

The trust also says patients are allowed to view DVDs rated 12 or 15 by the British Board of Film Censors, as well as some 18s but no 18Rs (adult films for licensed premises, such as sex shops) and none that are sexually inappropriate, sexually violent or contain violent content.
One of the films is graphic psychological thriller Secret Window - which has a scene where a man is beheaded with a shovel, a dead dog is stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver and a woman is beaten to death off-screen.

The title is among a list of 225 DVDs at the facility.
Also on the list is Christian Bale crime flick Harsh Times, featuring a brutal scene showing a man being fatally stabbed in the neck and a man threatening to punch a pregnant woman in the stomach.
The list was released under Freedom of Information Act asking for the films patients at Broadmoor Hospital are entitled to watch.
The Piano, a film on the list, depicts a talented musician having one of her fingers sliced off with an axe.

High-security Broadmoor, in Crowthorne, Berkshire is home to some of Britain's most notorious killers, including Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe

Sexually-explicit British movie Shame - deemed so lewd it got a severe NC-17 rating when it opened on a limited release in America - charts an advertising executive's battle with sex addiction and includes prostitution pornography.
Chartered applied psychologist Dr Andrina McCormack (both corr) said: 'I find it quite short-sighted and a rather poor decision.
'This is a very vulnerable section of the community. They are vulnerable because of their mental condition and emotional status.
'They are also confined and so they have little touch with reality outside Broadmoor and so Broadmoor becomes their world, as it were, with all the factors associated with an institution like Broadmoor.
'It is an inaccurate reality. It's not the majority reality which most of us experience.'
She added: 'Basically, any prolonged exposure to violence in the media, including DVDs in Broadmoor, can escalate aggressive behaviour and what it does - and this is the scary bit as well - is that this prolonged exposure encourages the belief among viewers that violence can resolve conflict.
'That's scary.'

'Prolonged exposure encourages the belief among viewers that violence can resolve conflict.

'That's scary.'

- Psychologist Dr Andrina McCormack

A spokesman for West London Mental Health NHS Trust said: 'These DVDs may have come to Broadmoor in patients' belongings and are kept in storage while they are here.
'When patients leave Broadmoor they take their property with them. We can't dispose of belongings which patients own which are legal.
'We do however allow patients to have one DVD per patient on a supervised basis.
'It should be remembered that patients also have access to all terrestrial television programmes which include some degree of violence and sexual content.
'Our view is that we have to work to prepare our patients for the environment into which they will have to manage when they leave - not a sanitised world - so knowing who is interested in what is part of our risk-assessment process.'

Secret Window, with Johnny Depp, features numerous gruesome scenes, including a beheading using a shovel

Revelations that patients at Broadmoor can access the films comes just days after it emerged justice secretary Chris Grayling had banned prisoners in British jails from watching 18-rated DVDs, only months after he put a halt to inmates playing video games with an 18 age restriction.
Oscar-winning film Thelma and Louise - which features an attempted rape scene - and supernatural horrors Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2 are also accessible to in-patients at the top-security psychiatric hospital.
Erotic thriller Half Moon Street, Narrow Margin, dark comedy To Die For,  and action film Missionary Man are among the other titles available to Broadmoor patients.
Also listed as available to patients are Oscar-winning box office smash-hit The Godfather and its sequels, along with silver screen hits Gladiator, Gone In 60 Seconds, Phonebooth and the Bourne trilogy, starring Matt Damon.
High-security Broadmoor, in Crowthorne, Berkshire is home to some of Britain's most notorious criminals including Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

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