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Broadmoor

/ ˈbrɔːdˌmɔː /

noun

  1. an institution in Berkshire, England, for housing and treating mentally ill criminals

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In my 30 years as a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist working in psychiatric hospitals and prisons across the UK, including Broadmoor, I have spoken to hundreds of criminals who have committed terrible offences in an attempt to help them take responsibility.

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In 1996, soon after I’d started at Broadmoor while completing my psychotherapy training, I took on a patient called Tony.

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Later, he joined a therapy group that I was running at Broadmoor Hospital.

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Patients and staff were moved into the new Broadmoor Hospital, a £250m high-security site for men detained under the Mental Health Act.

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Flames were seen in a derelict building at the old Broadmoor Hospital site on Chaplains Hill in Crowthorne, Berkshire, just after 09:30 BST.

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