Evil and Dangerous: The Crimes of Desmond Lee
In 1989, nineteen-year-old Desmond Lee smothered his landlady to death in Bradford. He served fourteen years of a life sentence and was released on licence in 2004.
Less than five years later, while still under supervision, he killed again.
On this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson examines the two murders committed by Desmond Lee — the first as a teenager, the second while on life licence — and the whole-life order that followed. From a flat in Ravensthorpe to the moors near Huddersfield, this is the story of a man a judge would later call “evil and dangerous.”
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