Ashworth high security hospital on Merseyside came under the spotlight after Moors murderer Ian Brady lost his legal bid to be transferred from there to a prison. For the first time in 20 years ...

Ashworth Hospital is one of only three high-security psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales Moors Murderer Ian Brady is expected to appear before a mental health tribunal to try to prove he is ...

The House of Lords has upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision in the case of Ashworth Security Hospital v MGN Ltd, requiring MGN to identify its source. The case concerned the publication of an ...

Tucked neatly between family houses and playing fields sits Ashworth hospital in Maghull home to some of the UK's most notorious killers. It is one of only three high-security psychiatric ...

Valdo Calocane, the Nottingham attacks killer, is currently held at Ashworth Hospital. The high-security psychiatric hospital is 10 miles north-east of Liverpool and is one of the only three ...

The revelation comes from a police officer drafted into Ashworth High Security Hospital in Merseyside to help combat spiralling levels of violence against staff. Speaking at a recent conference ...

This means he will spend the rest of his life in a high-security hospital. He will now be housed at Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool. Ashworth has housed numerous infamous violent killers over the ...

Evil drug lord Cregan, 37, who only has one eye, was recently escorted under armed guard 100 miles to Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside. He was moved out of top security Full Sutton in York back to ...

Satisfied that Calocane was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, the judge said the killer would "very probably" spend the rest of his life detained in high-security Ashworth Hospital in ...