UK Serial killer Dr Harold Shipman found hung in his cell

News that Harold Shipman had taken his own life in prison was met with mixed emotions. The death-obsessed doctor, who may have killed as many as 300 of his own patients at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde, used torn up bed sheets in his cell to hang himself on this day in 2004.

True crime anniversaries in January

In January 2012, David Norris and Gary Dobson were finally convicted of Stephen Lawrence's murder, almost two decades after the original attack

Many reacted angrily, calling prison service regulations into question for having allowed the notorious serial killer to have, in their eyes, escaped justice.

For others, the news came as a relief...