Serial Killer Michael Stone Aka Michael John Goodban

Anne Raffarty who presided over actual, factual guilty killer Simon Hall’s February 2003 trial, also prosecuted sadistic, psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone in 1998.

Excerpts from a media article headed I KILLED LIN AND MEGAN read;

Lin, 45, Megan, six, and Josie, nine, were attacked as they walked home from Goodnestone village primary school in Kent to their home in nearby Chillenden. 

Lin and Megan died but Josie was found clinging to life and has made an amazing recovery. 

Stone, 38, was arrested a year later in July 1997 and confessed to two prisoners while remanded in custody, said prosecutor Ann Rafferty QC. 

“He spoke of smashing an egg, of tying them up with wet towels although he hadn’t needed to as they were out of the game”

Stone – said to have demanded money from the family – dismissed them as “paupers”, the jury was told. 

Miss Rafferty added:

“He constantly called them slags and whores”

He told one prisoner, identified only as Daly, that “one of them had tried to get away but didn’t get far. 

“He wanted one of them to watch but she closed her eyes so he hit her again and she squirmed. 

“One of the girls was disobedient and they hadn’t got what he wanted”

Daly had intervened when other lags hurled abuse at Stone in Canterbury prison, said Miss Rafferty.

She added: “Daly was upset and said he would tell the screws what Stone told him. 

“But Stone was confident that he would not be believed and he would soon be freed because they had nothing on him.” 

Stone made another confession to a prisoner called Barry Thompson, Miss Rafferty told Maidstone Crown Court in Kent. 

“There was a discussion between the two of them about these murders and about the identification parade that was coming up shortly afterwards”

Miss Rafferty said there was “bitterness and acrimony” between the two and Stone allegedly said: “I made a mistake with her. I won’t make the same mistake with you” 

She told the jury:

“You will want to consider whether that is a reference to Josie” 

It is not known why killer Michael Stone does not appear to have been prosecuted for his killing of Lucy, the Russell families dog.

Some Background Crimes & The Fake Mask Of Insanity

Psychopathic killer Michael Stone tortured animals when he was a child and “forced a schoolgirl to strip at knifepoint in a playground”.

Michael Stone was first sent to borstal at the age of 14 in October 1974, following “several convictions” for theft and burglary.

On the 3rd of January 1975 Michael left borstal and lived in a care home until February 1975, when he was again convicted of yet more burglaries and thefts.

Excerpts from an “Independent inquiry” report on psychopathic killer Michael Stone’s care and treatment reads;

On 1st April 1975, he was remanded in custody for taking and driving away motor cars.

An application was made for him to go to the Secure Unit at Redhill but this was declined by the Department of Health on the grounds that there was no immediate vacancy and because they were concerned about the impact Michael would have in an already explosive situation there.

On 28th April 1975, he was sent to a Detention Centre for the second time for a three-month period.

When Michael was discharged back to North Downs on 24th June 1975, he was described by the social worker as looking most unwell.

He was near to tears the whole journey home and gave the impression that everything was worthless.

Convictions for theft, burglary and stealing cars continued throughout Mr Stone’s youth, culminating in a period of borstal training being imposed in August 1975 (at age 15).

His care order was subsequently discharged.

Michael was initially allocated to Dover Borstal but then transferred to Feltham for psychiatric oversight as it was thought that he suffered with depression.

No records are available in respect of this episode.

Following discharge from Feltham in August 1976, he rapidly re-offended and was returned to borstal from March to July 1977.

A borstal training report dated 10th November 1977 suggested that further offending be dealt with by imprisonment.

According to Mr Stone’s later accounts he first used heroin at age 17.

Excerpts beginning from page 33 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

Fantasies Of Killing Children & Hammer Attacks

Further excerpts read:

On 8th October 1992 Mr Stone re-attended Dr M – GP and told him that he felt under pressure and had been taking more stelazine than prescribed (25mg rather than 15mg).

He told Dr M – GP that when he came out of prison he was walking in the woods and felt like killing children.

He had increased his stelazine of his own accord as he realised “these ideas were not good”.

Dr M – GP was sufficiently concerned to make an urgent telephone referral to the local community mental health team (CMHT)

Mr Stone returned on 9th October 1992 in the company of his mother.

He was more calm at this second appointment, and Dr BB – Psych was able to take a lengthy and detailed history from both him and his mother.

Dr BB – Psych recorded details of Mr Stone’s forensic history, noting his violence and his account of previously attacking people with hammers.

Excerpts from page 57 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

Upbringing & Pychopathy

Further excerpts read;

The Michael Stone known to the caring agencies between 1992 and 1996 was a man with multiple and severe problems.

The extent of these and the interaction of one with the other made him a particularly difficult person to obtain information about, to assess, treat, manage or even control.

While those treating or caring for Mr Stone had considerable contact with him, the majority of his life was unknown to them.

Influences from this hidden part of his life, his illicit drug use, any criminal behaviour and difficult relationships with other family and friends, all undoubtedly coloured, if not sometimes caused, the clinical picture he presented.

On the one hand, in seeking what he perceived to be his best interest, Michael Stone variously inaccurately or selectively revealed, denied or even fabricated elements of his history or of events which might have been germane to his mental state at any particular time: he might behave in a particular way to create an impression or achieve a desired result.

On the other hand, his behaviour could at times be driven by the combined features of his personality disorder, his substance misuse, and, possibly, by symptoms of mental illness.

The significance of any one of these factors would vary.

At other times a different picture of Mr Stone is painted: a man whose life in large parts was based on a routine of watching TV and visiting his mother each day for lunch; a man who complied with advice from professionals and attended appointments made for him.

The professionals interviewed said that, as far as they were aware, Mr Stone did not have a “street” reputation of being a “hard” or violent person and, except on isolated occasions, they personally did not consider that he posed a physical threat to them in their professional dealings with him.

It is not within the Panel’s remit to investigate what local intelligence was held by the Kent police about Mr Stone.

It is clear that no concerns about him were raised with health, social service or probation professionals by the police.

None of this is surprising in the light of his history.

He had a most damaging upbringing.

From an early age he was seen as a disturbed and disturbing child and adolescent.

His relationships with important figures, family or carers, have always veered between being open and guarded, wanting and declining help, being amenable and uncooperative, pleasant and threatening, dependent and independent, insightful or driven by fantasy, appearing to be a damaged but intelligent and competent individual and then an unintelligent and disorganised person, being incapable of sustaining lasting relationships and being able to sustain some form of them, appearing to some as a violent and potentially very dangerous man, and, even on the same day, to others as a very disabled and compliant individual in genuine need of support from health and social agencies.

Besides his personality disorder and virtually persistent substance misuse, there were occasions when Michael Stone was thought to be psychotic.

The assessment of the nature of a psychosis depends upon an evaluation the manner in which the abnormal ideas and behaviour are presented, and what abnormal ideas are voiced.

In serious psychotic illness, particularly schizophrenia, abnormal ideas are frequently presented in characteristic ways giving confidence that, no matter what is expressed or what action results, a firm diagnosis of a functional psychosis can be made.

Even when there is doubt about the diagnosis early on, further experience of the patient and the emerging pattern of his disorder can help to clarify the picture.

As most schizophrenic illnesses tend to be chronic, progressive and disabling disorders, influenced in part by medication and the presence or absence of distressing life events, a confident diagnosis can be made over time.

This was not the picture presented over a sustained period in Mr Stone’s case.

It is highly unlikely that Michael Stone suffered from a typical schizophrenic or psychotic illness.

Excerpts beginning from page 33 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

Media Misinformation & Inaccuracies & Breaches Of Journalists Codes Of Conduct

Similarly to the fraudulent public relations spin campaign of killer Simon Hall, all media articles from around the time psychopathic killer Michael Stone chose to commit his murders of Lin (45), Megan (6) and Lucy Russell, the families dog, and his attempted murder of Josie Russell (9), on the 9th of July 1996, are not accurate.

Many of the media articles are not reflective of the actual facts of the subsequent police investigation, psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone’s personality, his behaviours and background, his families dynamics, his family members personalities and their behaviour’s and background.

Many of the media article and news stories on Michael Stone’s 1998 murder trial, his subsequent appeal, his October 2001 retrial, along with the Stone families concoctions and behaviours following Michael Stone’s murderous crimes often appear to be forgotten about – or simply not known. As highlighted in the 2000 report, which stated the media had printed “significantly inaccurate versions of Mr Stone’s history and events”.

Excerpts from the Independent inquiry into psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone, which came under the header Media interest and involvement read;

Quite justifiably, the media have taken a considerable interest in this case.

Unfortunately, this has had a negative impact in several ways.

First, various reports contained significantly inaccurate versions of Mr Stone’s history and events.

Second, the attempts of some elements of the media to obtain information amounted to breaches of journalists’ codes of conduct and unwarranted intrusion and interference in the lives of professionals and patients.

Third, it is apparent that some confidential clinical information which was published came into the hands of the media by unauthorised means, but it has not been possible to identify the source of this information.

The press statement on behalf of the commissioning agencies at the conclusion of the trial was made in good faith and on the advice of professional advisers and the Department of Health.

It was also made in the context of unprecedented media pressure.

However, it contained a number of assertions which in the opinion of the Panel were not an accurate reflection of the history of the case and included judgments which it was not the place of the agency to make.

The responsibility for this was not that of any individual but the result of the collective activity of many.

Few agencies have occasion to respond to such media pressure and lessons can be learned at both a national and local level.

The Kent experience suggests the need for a comprehensive review of media handling in cases of this nature.

Excerpts from page 8 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

Michael Stone Threatened To Kill His Sister

Excerpts which came under the header Background to the inquiry read;

Predictably, there was wide coverage in the media of these sensational events.

Detailed histories of Mr Stone’s life, mental state, and treatment appeared.

Many of these contradicted each other; some contained detail that could have been derived only from a source with access to medical records.

Various concerns were raised, including suggestions that Mr Stone had begged for help, but had been refused it

Immediately after his conviction, Mr Stone lodged an appeal.

At the date of writing this report his appeal has not been heard

Excerpts from page 10 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

Also similarly to psychopathic killer Simon Hall, psychopathic killer Michael Stone remained at large for a year before he was finally arrested and charged for his murderous crimes.

At some point just before his arrest, Michael Stone threatened to kill his sister Barbara Stone and one of her children.

It was also reported he “smashed up” his sister Barbara Stone’s car.

Deceptive & Gaslighting EnablerBarbara Stone ~ “Better The Devil You Know” & Her Brothers Involvement In The Murder Of Francis Caesar Jegou

Barbara Stone, Michael Stone’s sister, has made countless telling public statements over the years.

Barbara Stone has also demonstrated on countless occasions a lack of reasoning, insight and self awareness, similarly to Shaun Hall, who is referred to in Part 11 and Part 11a of this blog series, each of which can be read by tapping on the buttons below;

Alarmingly Barbara Stone is said to be a registered mental health nurse.

Although Barbara has also stated she “can’t work in prisons or have anything to do with forensics”.

Below are a few public statements made by Barbara Stone;

We were alike, apart from the criminal element.

We had the same thought processes and sense of humour

Barbara Stone

It soon became clear the police were clutching at straws.

There was not a scrap of evidence

Barbara Stone

I am proud of him to be honest

Barbara Stone

Murder Of Special Police Constable Francis Caesar Jegou

Before her brothers 1998 trial, Barbara Stone was reported here to have stated she believed her brother could have been responsible for his murders of Lin, Megan and Lucy Russell and his attempted murder of Josie Russell, but at some point Barbara Stone changed her mind.

According to Barbara Stone when she was 14 years old she allegedly buried the knife her then 16 year old brother Michael had used to carry out his murder of Francis Caesar Jegou.

Francis Caesar Jegou was a special police constable who was 65 years of age at the time he was stabbed to death in a park in Maidstone, Kent on the 12th of September 1976.

Barbara Stone stated;

When I was about 14 Mick came up to me with a knife in a sheath.

He said I was to hide it for him and I buried it.

At the time I was just a kid and did what my big brother told me.

Years later he said he knew something about the murder.

I knew he was up to no good.

The killing was his style – it was done by two or more people and Mick never acted alone.

It would have been done to get money and, again, that’s something he’d have done

Barbara Stone  (Turner, Lucy; Shaw, Adrian (24 October 1998). “Brother has killed before at just 16” Daily Mirror. p. 2.)

The November 2000 independent report did not consider psychopathic mass murderer Michael Stone’s potential involvement in the murder of Francis Jegou.

Instead it focused on his actual convictions;

Mr Stone’s first convictions for violence appear in February 1981 (at age 21) when he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for robbery and grievous bodily harm.

(In October 1992 Mr Stone told Dr BB – CPsych that this conviction was for “attacking people with hammers”.)

On release, he remained in voluntary after-care with the Kent Probation Services, again supervised by Mr DD – PO.

A pattern of rapid re-offending after release followed with further charges (at age 23) of wounding with intent, burglary and assault in 1983.

In October 1992 Mr Stone informed to Dr BB – CPsych that this conviction was for “stabbing someone.”

For apparently the first time the court requested a psychiatric report before sentencing Mr Stone.

Excerpt from page 52 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

A further reference from the same report reads;

The most serious offences in Mr Stone’s history before 1992 were two robberies of a theatre box office and an armed robbery (with an air pistol) of a building society.

These offences were committed in October and November 1986 within two months of leaving prison.

In April 1987 (at age 27) Mr Stone pleaded guilty to these offences and was jailed for 10 years.

Excerpt from page 54 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

It was then repeated here for example that Michael “Stone committed his first serious crime in 1981”.

Mother Jean & Step Father Denis

The author of the 1998 Scottish Daily Record article did not appear to have recognised their contradiction when they stated;

Monster Michael Stone was a walking timebomb, leading a meaningless, drug- addled life blighted by acts of insane violence. 

Thirteen years before the deranged junkie murdered Lin and Megan Russell, he tried to gouge out a police superintendent’s eyes with his bare hands. 

The officer’s crime? To attempt to calm him after he went berserk in a court holding cell. 

Superintendent Lee Plummer, now retired, said yesterday:

“I can still remember this mad, crazed figure scouring my eyes. 

“He was trying to get a finger behind my eyeball to prise it out of its socket. I was very close to being blinded.” 

Stone attacked Mr Plummer just before he was jailed for four and a half years for an unprovoked knife attack. 

As he passed sentence, Judge Felix Waley warned society the man in the dock was a potential killer. 

He told Stone:

“I have to protect the public from you long enough to give you a chance to mature, so you are safe when you are out and don’t end up killing somebody”

Not long after he was freed, in 1986, Stone was jailed again – this time for armed robbery. 

Judge Anthony Balston gave him 10 years, telling him:

“You are an extremely dangerous man with an appalling record for dishonesty and violence.” 

Born in Gillingham, Kent 38 years ago, Stone was introduced to violence and cruelty at an early age. 

When he was six, he saw his stepfather Denis – his parents had already divorced – take a meat cleaver to another man he claimed had punched him. 

By the time Stone was eight, mother Jean had decided she could not cope with him.

He was packed off to the first in a succession of children’s homes. 

Stone absconded often and hitch-hiked back to Gillingham.

He would sleep rough and steal to live, only to drift back to whatever institution he had fled from. 

Those hiking expeditions gave Stone his intimate knowledge of the fields and woodland paths around Chillenden, where he was later to kill Lin and Megan and leave young Josie Russell for dead. 

A friend from Stone’s children’s home days, Gary Day, recalled: “Mick was like everyone else – got into a bit of trouble, didn’t really want to be there, running away. 

“He was always friends with people a bit older than him. He looked up to them and liked to think he was tougher than he really was.” 

Stone left both care and school at 16 with few qualifications and little or no ambition. 

He returned to Gillingham, an unemployment blackspot with nothing to offer a particularly unpromising teenager.

He quickly became a drug addict and career housebreaker and thief. 

An officer on the Russell inquiry team said:

“Stone would thieve from garden sheds because they were easy. He took lawn mowers, tools and anything else he could sell”

Stone committed his first serious crime in 1981.

In a chilling hint of what was to come, he used a hammer to attack and rob a gay man.

He was jailed for two years for robbery and grievious bodily harm. 

By his mid-20s, Stone was a heroin addict.

Constantly craving his next fix, he would mug people at cashpoints for drug money. 

Bisexual Stone two-timed men with women and vice versa.

His squalid flat in the town’s Skinner Street served as a flophouse for Gillingham’s drug-users and crooks. 

One woman who spent time there said: “It was always a mess. There would be people everywhere taking drugs”

Soon after serving his time for the hammer attack, Stone was back in serious trouble. 

This time he had accused a man of kicking his flat door, and reacted by plunging a knife into his chest. 

As he waited his turn in the holding cells at Maidstone’s court building – scene of his trial for murdering the Russells – Stone went berserk. 

He attacked the custody officer, hitting him viciously in the head and kicking him in the groin.
Superintendent Plummer, in court on another matter, was asked to intervene. 

The former policeman, now 52, winces as he relives his encounter with Stone. 

“I remember it as if it was yesterday,” he said. 

“I was sitting in the courtroom when a hell of a row broke out. The magistrates were looking around for a policeman and I was the only one in court.” 

“I went back to the holding cells and saw the custody officer in some distress on the ground. He had been attacked. 

“A prisoner was kicking at the reinforced door, screaming abuse. It was only a matter of time before the thing gave way. 

“I got off two words as I opened the door before he flung himself at me. 

“He looked berserk, just crazy. His hands were at my throat, then he started on my eyes. 

“He was shouting, `This will cost you an eye.'” 

Mr Plummer said the pain grew unbearable as Stone pushed his finger further into his left eye socket. 

He added: “The prisoner appeared to be in a frenzy and I was getting desperate. I was barely holding him off. 

“Then the custody officer managed to get to his feet. He launched himself at my attacker, who released his grip on me, and we both bundled him into another cell. 

“It was then I realised fluid was pouring from my eye and I had long streaks of blood down my shirt front. The judge who jailed the guy later was right when he said he was capable of killing.” 

The next few years followed Stone’s old familiar pattern – into jail, out of jail early, back to crime. 

In April 1987, aged 26, he was back in the dock to be convicted of robberies at a theatre in Maidstone and a building society in Brighton, Sussex. 

He was given 10 years, reduced to eight on appeal, then released early once again to return to his old ways. 

Finally, on July 9, 1996, Stone came across Lin, Megan and Josie walking in a sunlit country lane, and Judge Waley’s grim prophecy of 1983 came true. 

The fateful day had begun like thousands of others for Stone.

He gave himself a heroin fix before going to a shop to sell some building tools, no doubt stolen. 

Police believe Stone spent the next few hours thieving.

Hours after the murders, a lawn mower was reported stolen from a house near the scene. 

Stone cut a pathetic figure in the dock during his trial.

Grey and balding, he either stared into space or glared angrily at the succession of one-time friends who helped build the damning case against him. 

His mother and sister sat in the front row of the public gallery every day of the trial, refusing even to entertain the idea he could be guilty. 

After a long and exhaustive inquiry -it took well over two years to put Stone behind bars – the police have no such doubts

Police have questioned him over the killing of a pensioner in Maidstone 21 years ago

The body of Francis Jegou, 65, was found with head injuries and multiple stab wounds to the stomach, probably inflicted with a thin-bladed stiletto dagger or a pair of scissors. 

At the time, police believed the motive may have been robbery.

Mr Jegou was in the habit of carrying large amounts of cash, but he only had pounds 3 when his body was discovered.

Excerpts from a Daily Record article headed HORROR IN COURT: POLICEMAN RELIVES ATTACK THAT SUMS UP STONE’S WORTHLESS LIFE OF VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND THIEVING; He tried to rip my eyes out dated 1998

Admission Of Guilt To Having Murdered Francis Caesar Jegou

Psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone told a psychiatrist that he was responsible for his murder of Francis Jegou in 1976 and apparently remains Kent police’s prime suspect.

It is not known if Michael Stone also told his sister Barbara or his mother Jean that he murdered Lin, Megan and Lucy Russell and had attempted to murder Josie Russell.

However Michael Stone had made many admissions about his fantasies to commit murder before he eventually chose to make his fantasies reality and commit his murders of the Russell family members and their dog Lucy in 1998.

The Zito Trust – Lionising The Dangerous & Psychopathic Serial Killer

Barbara Stone seemingly changed her mind about her brother guilt at some point leading up to her contact with Jayne Zito, a former mental health worker.

Jayne Zito’s first husband Jonathan Zito, was murdered in December 1992 by Christopher Clunis, who had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1986.

It is not known if it was a calculated move on Barbara Stone’s behalf to target Jayne Zito but Janye appeared to have been vulnerable for years following her husband Jonathan Zito’s murder, as can be heard during an interview with Jayne Zito here.

Excerpts from the Healthtalk.org website read;

Jayne had a “complete breakdown” after Jon’s death.

She was in “complete shock” and wanted to be by herself but could not look after herself.

For years Jayne felt inconsolable.

She felt a kind of terror and at times felt physically sick, out of control, ashamed and ugly.

She had to give up her job and her course and her flat in London.

She could not drive a car and felt that she could not function.

Jayne had support from her family and she had a counsellor from CRUSE, who was invaluable.

The counsellor was helpful partly because she was interested in Jonathan’s life and his marriage to Jayne, as well as his death.

After Jayne moved she found help via a woman who worked for Victim Support.

The woman referred Jayne to London voluntary bereavement services.

It took years for Jayne to recognise that she was a victim, a survivor, and that something had happened to her too.

Untreatable Psychopathic Killer

Jayne Zito apparently wrote an article for the Independent headed The Michael Stones of the future can be treated – but we must start now, or at least her name appears on the article giving the impression it was written by her.

Jayne Zito’s article(?) was published on Saturday the 24th of October 1998, the day after psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone was found guilty for his murder of Lin and Megan Russell and his attempted murder of Josie Russell.

Excerpts from Jayne Zito’s article(?) read;

At The Zito Trust we became involved in this case early for two reasons, The first is our role as the campaigning mental health charity concerned specifically with failures of community care for severely mentally ill people who commit homicide and violent attacks; the second is because the sister of Michael Stone, Barbara, contacted our support and advice service in November 1997, and we have had nearly a year to study the problems and issues raised by her brother’s long history of violence, institutionalisation, and mental health problems, including serious drug abuse.

It became obvious before the trial that Michael Stone suffers from a very serious personality disorder, exacerbated by serious drug abuse.

There was concern that he had been diagnosed as having schizophrenia, but West Kent Health Authority say not.

We have to wait for the independent inquiry to report before we know the full and correct version of the facts.

October 1998 – The Start Of The Fraudulent Public Relations Spin Campaign

The Independent newspaper ran another story on Wednesday the 28th of October 1998, five days after Michael Stone was found guilty and Louise Jury’s article headed Why I believe my brother didn’t kill, by Michael Stone’s sister indicated Michael Stone’s fraudulent public relations spin campaign had begun.

Excerpts read;

Barbara Stone, 36, disclosed yesterday that as someone who respected the law, she had accepted the possibility of his guilt when police arrested her brother last year.

But her doubts mounted as the initial “evidence” against him fell away.

“I don’t want to rub it into the Russells that it’s a miscarriage of justice.

That’s not fair – it’s too soon.

But unless they prove to me different, I believe he’s innocent” she said.

Ms Stone said yesterday that a great deal of information had been forthcoming and it was hoped to launch an appeal within two weeks.

At the trial at Maidstone Crown Court, testimony from three convicted criminals was the key to the case against Stone.

But his sister said nobody should be convicted on the uncorroborated evidence of criminals.

“I don’t feel they should convict and send him away for the rest of his life on the word of another criminal”

Ms Stone chose to speak to The Independent yesterday at a meeting arranged by the Zito Trust, the mental health pressure group which is working with her to highlight the issues raised by the case.

As an aside, she noted that although the authorities claimed he had never been a paranoid schizophrenic, a condition considered treatable under the Mental Health Act, “schizophrenia” was the reason given for his receipt of disability living allowance.

Excerpts by Louise Jury from an article for The Independent headed Why I believe my brother didn’t kill, by Michael Stone’s sister dated the 28th of October 1998

Sadistic serial killer Michael Stone was, and is, an untreatable and dangerous psychopath and a reference from the November 2000 independent inquiry report into Michael’s “care and treatment” appears to suggest Michael’s psychopathic personality disorder was recognised at least as early as 1983;

In April 1983 Dr ZE – Psych(F), a Forensic Psychiatrist assessed Mr Stone in Canterbury Prison.

In a very short report, she stated that she found him to be a “volatile and emotional man who found it difficult to co-operate with a psychiatric interview”.

Dr ZE – Psych(F)’s report concluded that “It is apparent that he is very unstable, but there is no evidence that he has a mental illness for which treatment in a psychiatric hospital would be advisable… his very deprived and unsatisfactory childhood has led to a severe personality disorder”

Dr ZE – Psych(F) recommended that, should Mr Stone receive a sentence of more than one year, he be considered for treatment within the prison system.

However, the report gives no indication of the suggested nature or purpose of any such treatment.

Excerpt from page 53 of the November 2000 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

Without Conscience

A 2019 article for The Augustus Chronicle reported some insights from Hervey Cleckley, who wrote The Mask of Sanity (Which can be read here), The Three Faces of Eve and The Caracture of Love: A Discussion of Social, Psychiatric, and Literay Manifestations of Pathologic Sexuality, and Robert Hare , who wrote Snakes in Suits, Without Conscience and Psychopathy: Theory and Research.

Some excerpts by Perry Smith, a retired U.S. Air Force major general, for The Augusta Chronicle article headed Psychopaths among us: Insights from Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare read;

For the past three years, I have been conducting research on the contributions that Augusta native Hervey Cleckley and his protégé, Robert Hare, have made to the fields of psychiatry and psychology.

Here are some insights. I hope they are helpful to you.

Research suggests that psychopaths may be over-represented among the following occupations:

CEO; lawyer;media (TV/Radio); salesperson; surgeon; journalist; police officer; clergy; chef; civil servant.

Psychopaths may be under-represented in these professions:

Care aide; nurse; therapist; craftsperson; beautician/stylist; charity worker; teacher. creative artist accountant

On reflection, I personally have dealt with 12 individuals who probably were psychopaths: two general officers, two high-level politicians, an assistant secretary of the Navy, two senior officials in national media organizations (at CNN and at CBS), the CEO of a university, a pastor (not in my church) and three officials in nonprofit organizations.

These individuals had much in common: smart; charming; little empathy (bullied others orally); lacked loyalty (often cleverly undermining their boss); highly ambitious; risk-takers; cleverly told lies; and unwilling to accept criticism or undergo therapy.

Of the 12, 11 were men.

Perry Smith

It is not known how many of the people who choose to also commit innocence fraud, like killers Simon Hall and Michael Stone, and those people who choose to knowingly promote the fraudulent public relations spin campaigns have undiagnosed psychopathic personality disorders.

However Perry Smith included Robert Hare’s “Psychopathy Checklist – Revised” here and he urged people ‘to read Robert Hare’s Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us’.

Some Parallel’s

Like psychopathic killer Simon Hall, serial killer Michael Stone had sexual relationships with both men and women and both alleged they were sexually abused, as referred to in Part 13 of this blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below;

Killer Michael Stone made “explicit threats about decapitating children and other acts of unprovoked violence”.

Killer Simon Hall also spoke of “fantasies about having sex with a child, killing the child and burying the body” as referred to in Part 14, which can be read by tapping on the button below;

There was also an October 1993 reference in the November 2000 independent inquiry report to Michael Stone having said “he had slashed his arms and wrists in the police station; he had lost control and felt he could kill someone”.

Killer Simon Hall also slashed his wrists whilst serving time in a young offenders institute, after having been convicted for “violence, an assault in McDonalds in 1997 and another for wounding” as referred to in Part 14 of this blog series.

Simon Hall also deliberately cut his arms in 2003 after having been found guilty of his murder of Joan Albert, as referred to in Part 17a, which can be read by tapping on the button below;

It has been suggested that Michael Stone “attempted to commit suicide on at least two occasions”.

Killer Simon Hall also attempted to commit suicide several times during his incarceration and his final attempt proved fatal.

Both killers Simon Hall and Michael Stone spoke about their murderous crimes to other people at some point during their imprisonment.

Michael Stone asked to be put in Broadmoor hospital, whilst Simon Hall asked to be put in Broadmoor or Rampton Hospital.

Another reference from the Independent inquiry report into Michael Stone’s care and treatment reads;

Despite Mr Stone repeatedly reporting his history of having been in social services care as a child, his social services records were neither requested by or made available to any of those working in the health service who were involved in his care and treatment from 1992 to 1997.

Excerpts beginning from page 55 of the November 2002 Independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Michael Stone report

Similarly to killer Michael Stone, killer Simon Hall’s social services records were not requested by any of “those working in the health service who were involved in his care and treatment”, throughout either Simon Hall time in a young offenders institute or following his arrest and subsequent conviction for his murder of Joan Albert.

Some of killer Simon Hall’s social service records are referred to in Part 3, which can be read by tapping on the button below;

“Diabolicals”

In early February 2022, yet more of psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone and his enablers innocence fraud did the rounds via the media and his sister Barbara Stone was seemingly contacted for an interview.

In one of her Facebook comments on the United Against Injustice innocence fraud Facebook group, Barbara Stone replied to Kevin McMahon when she was apparently getting ready for a media interview;

Barbara Stone stated in part, ‘…I have to go and play’

Barbara Stone did not comment when she was asked why she chose to use the word ‘play’, however the definition for the word play in the Oxford dictionary is;

engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose

In one of Sandra Lean’s public statements on one of her Facebook accounts, and which appears to be part of yet another of her orchestrated and malicious smear/hate campaigns (this time aimed at a crime writer in Scotland) Sandra Lean stated in part;

Diabolicals appear to be incapable of separating fact from opinion and often offer personal opinions as fact

Barbara Stone also chose to comment on Sandra Lean’s 18th of July 2022 Facebook post.

In response to Barbara Stone’s comment, Sandra Lean made the following comment in response;

‘Mick’ being dangerous psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone, with Sandra Lean attempting to suggest psychopathic serial killer Levi Bellfield was responsible for Michael Stone’s murderous crimes.

Hornswoggler William Clegg, who represented serial killer Michael Stone, referred to the fraudulent public relations spin campaign as “a 26-year saga”.

In a February 2022 article for the Telegraph headed I don’t believe Levi Bellfield’s ‘confession’ – but Michael Stone’s conviction still troubles me William Clegg stated;

My mind returned to that gruesome case over the weekend, when I read about the latest twist in what has now become a 26-year saga.

It was revealed on Sunday that serial killer Levi Bellfield has confessed to the Chillenden murders in a four-page letter, according to Stone’s solicitor.

Bellfield is already serving a life sentence in prison for the murders of three other women and girls (and the attempted murder of one more), including 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who was abducted and killed near Walton-on-Thames in March 2002.

Bellfield claims he was wearing yellow Marigold washing-up gloves at the time of the Chillenden attack, with a hammer in his right hand.

“There was blood everywhere and all up my legs, arms and shorts,” Bellfield is said to have written.

Bellfield’s claim is newsworthy.

If true, it would mean that my client Michael Stone is currently serving three life sentences for crimes he did not commit.

But we should treat Bellfield’s claim with extreme caution.

If I was ever to speak to him, I would not believe a word he said.

He could easily be a fantasist, an attention-seeker. 

Excerpts by William Clegg for the Telegraph article headed I don’t believe Levi Bellfield’s ‘confession’ – but Michael Stone’s conviction still troubles me dated the 7th of February 2022

William Clegg also represented Jill Dando’s killer, renowned serial stalker and predatory and prolific sex offender and rapist Barry George.

Nick Ross a friend of Jill Dando’s and co host of the BBC’s Crimewatch TV programme, gave an interview here with Piers Morgan in 2022.

Piers Morgan made numerous false and bizarre claims, including claiming that killer Barry George was released from custody “an innocent man” following his re-trial, which is NOT what happened

Although Barry George was found ‘not guilty’ at the end of his 2nd murder trial, he was NOT found to be “innocent” he was found not guilty.

Killer Barry George was placed under MAPPA restrictions immediately following his second trial for his murder of Jill Dando and is still being monitored under MAPPA (Multi-agency public protection arrangements) type restrictions due to his psychopathy and dangerousness – in particular towards women.

Link to Part 17e here