Overview
- Bryan first killed in 1993, bludgeoning shop worker Nisha Sheth; a court found manslaughter on diminished responsibility and sent him to secure psychiatric care.
- By the early 2000s clinicians deemed him low risk, leading to supervised community placement shortly before his 2004 release from a secure unit.
- In February 2004 he murdered friend Brian Cherry in Walthamstow, dismembered the body, and told police he cooked and tasted brain tissue after buying tools earlier that day.
- Transferred to Broadmoor after the arrest, he was placed on general observations with 15‑minute checks and in April 2004 killed fellow patient Richard Loudwell inside the hospital.
- He confessed in court and received multiple life sentences, with the judge ruling he should never be released, while subsequent reviews cited assessment mistakes and broken lines of communication.