A former Yorkshire schoolboy who grew up to be a California serial killer has his death sentence upheld by the US Supreme Court.
Charles Ng was convicted of murdering six men, three women and two boys from 1984 to his 1985 with his partner Leonard Lake and served 23 years on death row. confined in a prison cell.
Ng was born in Hong Kong in 1960, the son of a wealthy businessman.
During his teenage years, Ng was called a troubled loner and was expelled from several schools.
When he was arrested for shoplifting at the age of fifteen, his father sent him to his relatives' home in Longton, near Preston, where he was sent to Bentham. Grammar became a boarder at his school.
He was expelled shortly after it was discovered that he was stealing from other students.
Moved to California, Leonard in 1983. After meeting Lake, the two soon embarked on a series of kidnappings and murders in Northern California. hidden in a secret bunker fenced off. -in, Sierra Nevada compound.
An avid apocalyptic prepper, Lake built a bunker out of fear of nuclear war, but used it as a sexual torture chamber with Ng, hiding behind a hidden door in a prison cell. Like solitary confinement he set up two rooms.
The manner in which Ng and Lake killed and dismembered their victims made identification of the bodies extremely difficult, and the exact number of killings is still unknown today.
After being arrested for another crime when Lake committed suicide with his cyanide pills in 1985, Ng fled to Canada and tried to turn himself in.
However, as a result of this global investigation into his two murders, Ng was eventually arrested and charged with kidnapping, torture and murder after shooting a security guard who attempted to shoplift. was indicted on
After a lengthy legal battle with the Supreme Court of Canada, Ng was eventually extradited to the United States, convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to death.
During the trial, his Ng, who acted as his own attorney, claimed he was not involved in the killing and said in court that Lake acted alone.
This later resulted in a videotape of Ng and Lake threatening a bound woman with a knife, claiming, "I can scream like any other woman, but I can't." It was proven erroneous when the prosecutor presented it to court. you are good".
Other key evidence included a 250-page diary documenting the killings of the two men, and a cartoon sketch of the victim hanging on the wall behind him. The prosecution of
Ng cost the state of California about $20 million. This was at the time the most expensive trial in the history of the state.
After his latest allegations were dismissed by the California Supreme Court, he was sent to San He Quentin State Stay on death row in prison. After suspending the death penalty in the state as long as Gov. Gavin Newsom remains CEO.
Meanwhile, Ng still has the potential to challenge his ruling through a number of other federal appeals.
[email protected]to contact the news his team.
More articles like this on news page.
