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missing youngster, due to the nature of
his disappearance being similar to the growing list of further
missing young kids.
    The game was
up and Bell knew it, although he refused to admit to any crimes or
disappearance of his employee, even when they read out the names of
his victims.
    Meanwhile,
more and more human remains were being discovered in the field by
Bell’s house, yet only he knew his victims were dissolved in
acid
    The police
forensic team set about the interior of Bell’s house while he was
safely in custody and made their gruesome find in the basement. On
sifting through the sludgy remains of the acid bath, they found
human body parts which had not dissolved and the blocked sewer,
which contained a mass of human bones.
    Upstairs they
found the bloodstained tiles in the bathroom of his latest victim
and human hair on the stair carpet leading to the basement.
    This was the
evidence they needed to convict Bell, but could not identify any of
their findings or the amount of victims which had suffered at his
evil hands.
    The trial was
held at Preston Crown Court, which attracted intense attention from
the media with the courtroom being packed every day, and outside
throngs of spectators blocked the pavements to watch the
protagonists arrive and leave.
    On the arrival
of Bell, apparently amused by his fate, the police had trouble
controlling the mob as they surged forward to get a closer look at
the police van as it entered the court gates. The sensational
details of his sordid life had enthralled the nation, particularly
the residents of Thornton and the gay establishments of
Blackpool.
    Newspaper
reporters in court could not disguise their disgust for the killer
or their sympathy for the relatives of his victims.
    Fewer
murderers have rivalled John Bell for cold hearted, premeditated
callousness and cruelty of which the judge summed up on his guilty
verdict by saying, “I shall recommend to the Home Secretary the
sentence for your crimes will be life which is a long period but
you are an unusually dangerous man, I express the hope that where I
have said life imprisonment, it will mean precisely that.”
    As he left the
court, he lowered his head flanked by four prison guards and was
taken down to await his immediate departure to Strangeways Prison
in Manchester, with only him knowing how his victims died through
the unimaginable terror they had experienced at the hands of John
Bell
    The person or
persons responsible for the bodies found in the shallow graves
around the area is still at large, with Bell paying the price for
their freedom and continuation of brutality and murder.
BANGED UP
    Prison can
mean reality, something ultimately known, with special but familiar
sights, sounds and smells, Or it can be a fantasy, something that
one reads or hears about but never sees, terrifying, mysterious,
and perhaps exciting.
    To the
architect, a neat solution to a complex housing problem, To the
psychologist, a career in the study of human behaviour; but to
thousands of people, an experience which slows up time, which
crowds them together, sets them apart and changes the course of
their lives.
    In practice,
much of the ‘treatment and training’ in prison is designed to keep
people occupied at least some of the time. There is work, usually
of a simple kind, and a few leisure activities. But quite a lot of
informal learning does occur, though it may not exactly be of a
social kind. Criminal techniques are often discussed and passed
on.
    John Bell was
to enter one of the countries oldest and severest prisons in the
system.
    Strangeways,
in the city of Manchester, was a mere sixty miles from where he
committed his brutal and sadistic acts. It was an old Victorian
purpose built building with a reputation of housing some of the
countries most brutal killers.
    Inmates have
to sleep two or three to a cell constructed over a century ago for
one; the overcrowding, the lack of space and the constant shortage
of staff combine to