Peter Manuel
Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (15 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was a Scottish serial killer known as the Beast of Birkenshaw and the Bedroom Killer who committed the murders of seven people across Lanarkshire, Scotland, between 1956 and 1958. He is also suspected of murdering two further victims—one in East Kilbride, Scotland and one in Edmundbyers, England—in 1956 and 1957 respectively.
Tried at the Glasgow High Court for the eight murders committed in Scotland, Manuel was convicted of seven of these crimes on 26 May 1958, with charges pertaining to his first alleged victim dismissed due to insufficient evidence. He did appeal his conviction, but his conviction was upheld on 24 June. He was hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie on 11 July.
Manuel became known as the "Beast of Birkenshaw" due to the name of the North Lanarkshire village where he lived at the time of his arrest and the proximity of his home to each of his known Scottish crime scenes; he became known as the "Bedroom Killer" because six of the seven victims he was convicted of killing were murdered in the bedrooms of their own homes.
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